So Close You’re Nearly One

No part of a pattern is
Wholly identical to
Any other part. Only

The properties alternate,
Alternation being time,
Tick, tock, tick, and symmetry,

The sense of repetition,
That the only slightly new,
The only slightly other

Is the same, returned. It’s not,
But it’s close. This shares many
Or most of the properties

Of that. But feel properties
Themselves, the silky fabric
Of their sameness, and it’s rough,

Nonidentical to touch.
What is it then in sequence
That comes back as pleasure, love?