Inseparable

The Caregiver Poet

We are woven together, you and I,

Threads that run deeper Than memory,

Deeper than the body’s Failing hold,

Deeper than this world

Of solid things.

When I feared

I was losing you

To slow tides

Pulling you away,

I found instead what Cannot be lost

How you live in the Rhythm of my breath,

in every kindness I have learned to give.

The veil between us grows thinner now,

Not a separation

But a softening.

I begin to understand:

you are not departing, only shedding what

kept us at the

Distance of bodies,

Two very separate Shores.

Soon you will slip free

Into a nearness we could Never know before,

and I will carry you

not as a weight of grief

but as the warmth beneath my skin,

the voice that whispers in my knowing,

the love that moves through me like blood.

This is not goodbye—

there is no such thing for us.

This is the beginning of a closeness

that will deepen with every breath I take,

until the day I follow

and we are finally, completely,

what we have always been:

Inseparable.

Cloudia Charters