Here Together

W. S. Merwin

These days I can see us clinging to each other
as we are swept along by the current
I am clinging to you to keep you from
being swept away and you are clinging to me
we see the shores blurring past as we hold
each other in the rushing current
the daylight rushes unheard far above us
how long will we be swept along in the daylight
how long will we cling together in the night
and where will it carry us together

W. S. Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet who won two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. He served as the seventeenth U.S. Poet Laureate.
Originally published:
January 1, 2016

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