Lies will separate people, whether or not they are known to the other person. Small lies create slight cracks, and big lies open chasms. Be it minor or considerable; lies shall add up and eventually distance people from one other that not even the bridge of truth-telling may span.
By the time two people look toward each other from a distance as wide as a large canyon – it is already too late. They are too far from each other to recognize the person they used to know so well. By then, they can't even hear the other's voice from that great distance.
Looking back into the past, they may realize in their present loneliness that there was a time when a simple gesture of reaching out for the hand of the other could have easily breached a small gap, … but such a chance has long passed.
