Our deep love, failing to consummate, is for millennium.”
this bit does not sound romantic at all...hehehe consumate= sex? thus eventhough one is married does not necessarily mean that one would consumate that marriage/relationship?
I tend to think that it doesn't matter if consumated or not..the love here is pure love..like one of Thúy Kiều and Kim Trọng
Lấy nhau chẳng đặng thương hoài nghìn năm ..
here implies that their love was doomed...they could not be together with each other..in marriage..
Short strands, long strands..A star crossed/doomed love..A thousand years of longings..