Mysterious Distance

You can sing about it,
you can explain all the ways
to be fascinated by it,
you can sit there puzzled
even while the basic truth is
we're stuck together
just because that's what we do,
while the real mystery
is why we find still more
ways to complicate it
by setting up rules
we know are right
as they get in our way,
frustrate and torment us,
so that sometimes, we're
glad not to think about it,
until something brings it up again.

That's the mysterious distance
between man and woman.