Here when I say “I never want to be without you,”
somewhere else I am saying
“I never want to be without you again.” And when I touch you
in each of the places we meet

in all of the lives we are, it’s with hands that are dying
and resurrected.
When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life,
in each place and forever.

(excerpt from Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally A Love Poem – Bob Hicok)

*In Spanish, esperar means to hope. Ironically, it also means to wait.