We are secrets to each other    Each one's life a novel    No-one else has read.    Even joined in bonds of love,    We're linked to one another    By such slender threads.       We are planets to each other,    Drifting in our orbits    To a brief eclipse.    Each of us a world apart,    Alone and yet together,    Like two passing ships.       Just between us,    I think it's time for us to recognize    The differences we sometimes fear to show.    Just between us,    I think it's time for us to realize,    The spaces in between    Leave room for you and I to grow.       We are strangers to each other,    Full of sliding panels,    An illusion show.    Acting well-rehearsed routines    Or playing from the heart?    It's hard for one to know.       We are islands to each other,    Building hopeful bridges    On a troubled sea.    Some are burned or swept away,    Some we would not choose,    But we're not always free.