Saudade

How big an ocean has to be to take it all in?
How big a heart has to be to take all in stride?
How does the sky be so high when nothing is its pillar?
How does the mouth make a smile when the eyes loses its shine?
Surely not by any humanly means. 

The mind doesn't comprehend,
the heart heavy and feet leaden to the ground. 
Nowhere to go but no choice but to move. 

Someday you won't feel it; the tugging of saudade. 
Maybe it'll take two lifetimes,
But take heart, nothing is forever. 

Answers will come too late because we don't need it anyway.
Everything will go on as written, 
Flowing infinitely through the rivers of time,
With or without you and me.