Random Leaf #1961 precisely cut

What if one shatters the silence

and the space between stays broken?

Or what if fortune be kind,

and things mended instead?

In both questions,

there will be an answer—

in one— where they finally get to know

each other

and ultimately become each other's half;

and in another— where words unspoken

will remain unsaid

and the two souls will keep on wandering.

Oh! If only—

the echoes were clearer,

and the heartbeat louder

than the flutter of the fearful

yet fragile butterfly wings.

Maybe they would be lovers.

Or just maybe their paths crossing

would forever remain untrodden.