In the silence of the night He can hear her breathe And knows she is a wake. He longs to comfort her But cannot say the words She needs to hear. After all they've shared He knows he'll never go And yet he knows she is bereft Because his heart's already left. In the silence of the night She can hear him breathe And knows he is awake. She longs to touch him But although he lives so near She cannot reach. A woman she has never met Whose name she does not know And face she's never seen Lies in the space between.