Channel assignment

Channel assignment

Were you a step away from me,
and I a step from you,
then you could hear
were I to speak.
Yet another step between us
would make two,
and to speak would mean to scream.
Beyond two steps
no sound could penetrate:
we’d sit alone
on silent isles
until some friends between us stood
to mediate,
one a step from you, one a step from me,
with a single step between them, too.