The greatest distance in the world
is not the distance between life and death,
but when I stand before you
and you do not know I love you.
The greatest distance in the world
is not when I stand before you
and you do not know I love you,
but when I am so consumed by love
that I cannot say I love you.
The greatest distance in the world
is not that I cannot say I love you,
but that I miss you until my heart breaks,
yet can only bury it deep inside.
The greatest distance in the world
is not that I cannot say I miss you,
but that we love each other
yet cannot be together.
The greatest distance in the world
is not that we love each other
yet cannot be together,
but that we know true love is invincible,
yet pretend not to care.
The greatest distance in the world
is not the distance between trees,
but branches growing from the same trunk
that cannot lean on each other in the wind.
The greatest distance in the world
is not that branches cannot lean on each other,
but that stars gazing at one another
have no paths that cross.
The greatest distance in the world
is not the paths between stars,
but that even when their paths cross,
they vanish in an instant.
The greatest distance in the world
is not vanishing in an instant,
but never having met
and already being destined never to reunite.
The greatest distance in the world
is the distance between a fish and a bird:
one in the sky, the other diving deep beneath the sea.
-- Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
The author is great. It's very interesting. I hope to continue writing. I think it's better for the blind man's identity to be a little more mysterious.