Maybe you wrote a letter,
the postman made a mistake.
I received it, and maybe
I chose to write a reply,
just to be quirky.
Maybe you chose to be
quirky as well, and wrote back
shortly, and the postman
didn't make any mistakes
this time.
Five-six reciprocation,
spread well over a year,
maybe we learned our
addresses by heart-
a two-thousand-kilometre
of distance against
an unknown longing is
always short.
But maybe by then,
I memorized all the trains
that passed through your
hometown.
Maybe you kept wondering
about the coarseness
of my voice all the time...
Maybe we kept writing,
kept yearning and
maybe everything about
this invoked in us
something so irresistible,
that one day we met
at a coastal town.
Or maybe we remained as
prisoners of our age
and era. Maybe you
got married and the letters
stopped coming.
Maybe I did the same
and eventually forgot
your imaginary face.
And maybe one day,
my kid, while going through
his school atlas, stumbled
upon a vague town and
asked me about it.
Maybe your kid did
the same.
And maybe at the same
time we'd tasted the same
sweetness, and we smiled
over the feeling of
knowing a town that we
never visited.