Strangers in the Night

STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

In the dead of cosmic night,

Once an aeon, comets pass each other by.

For an instant, all’s ablaze with light.

That’s the law that space is governed by.

Man and Woman just as rarely

Truly meet—to drift apart.

Could this law be made more fairly?

Then their roads need never part.

Alexander V Demidov

27 November 1988