A New Way of Being Together

You have visited my dreams and there is no sadness in them, not even in the waking to find you are not here.  This is, in its way, progress -- not in the sense of acknowledging that distance and the still terrible loss, since that was always known.  Maybe it is in the satisfaction of being together in ways we could only wonder at so long ago, ways that make the absence different than it had been; and while it is less than we might once have wished it is not less than we now can offer.