TWIN PRIMES
Two lights burning in the dark
Never touching never far
Three and five then five and seven
Small beginnings under heaven
Eleven waits for thirteen there
Two apart in endless air
No one knows how far they run
Past the reach of every sun
We count the silence in between
We follow what cannot be seen
And every time the darkness grows
Another pair appears and glows
Two apart into infinity
Side by side where no one sees
Are you waiting farther on
Beyond the numbers we have known
Two apart though worlds may end
Again you vanish meet again
No proof can tell us where you are—
Still we search among the stars
Centuries have crossed this page
Ink has faded minds have aged
Still the question stays alive
Do the pairs forever rise
Every answer opens space
Every theorem leaves a trace
At the edge of what we know
Two small numbers onward go
No map can show the final pair
No hand has found an ending there
The farther out our lanterns shine
The more we meet that ancient sign
Two apart into infinity
Side by side where no one sees
Are you waiting farther on
Beyond the numbers we have known
Two apart though worlds may end
Again you vanish meet again
No proof can tell us where you are—
Still we search among the stars
Maybe infinity is not
A distant shore that can be caught
Maybe truth is what we chase
Through endless dark from place to place
And if the final proof arrives
After all our brief-lived lives
Somewhere two more lights will burn—
Waiting for the next return
Two apart into infinity
Older than our memory
Past the last horizon drawn
Still the quiet pairs go on
Two apart—if time should end
Will we find you there again
No proof has closed the endless night—
Two distant numbers side by side
Two apart…
Into infinity
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