“Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin

Published in: 

The Rain in the Trees, 1987
 

(Knopf)

If we are separated I will
try to wait for you
on your side of things

your side of the wall and the water
and of the light moving at its own speed
even on leaves that we have seen
I will wait on one side

while a side is there

The Merwin Conservancy's logo; image displays a palm frond oriented vertically