Bedrieger Junction

Putting on Cyrano

For D.K.

Putting on Cyrano de Bergerac
makes everbody adolescent horny.
For a few weeks we all moon,
romantic and doomed.
You had a bit part
and I was in wardrobe,
but we were the stars
in our own star-crossed drama.
The audience in our heads
held its breath every time
your skin came near to mine,
listened for confessions never made,
watched for the withheld embrace.
You weren't married, and I wasn't faithful.
No reason we couldn't cross that chasm of longing,
except we both knew, perhaps,
that love that never lives
is the only love that lasts.

-- Thomas Gorn