Betsy Robin Schwartz

My love-

Your numbers will not massage your knotted shoulders

or suck your toes.

Your office will not protect your sleep

or nurse your diseases.

Your job will not cook your dinner

preserve your youth

make your old age richer

share your mournings

save you from dying

or respond to your love.

Our only legacy lives in contact

in time truly tasted.

We are with the world too often

too often alone

together too rare.