Hawthorne of Rathelle
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(9/23/06 11:10 am)
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Poem for a long distance relationship
The distance between us grows like a living thing,
broadening,
widening,
slowly becoming an insurmountable gap.
So often now, I find,
I don't know what to say to you anymore.
My fingers falter on the keyboard,
leaving me lost, confused, angry.
How have my missives come to be so stunted?
So stalled?
So empty?
Silence clings to my limbs,
drowning me in failed communication.
Why can't I find the words to say?
Slowly you become like a stranger to me,
experiencing life so far away,
changing every day, into something foreign,
exotic,
when all I desire is the safety of that which I already know.
Who are you?
Living so far away,
absent from my life so often.
What is to become of us?
What are we becoming?
I fall back to independence,
alone,
relying on no one,
even though I know you would be there if I just reached a little further.
I have grown weary of reaching.
Why don't I feel the closeness anymore?
All I have left is tears,
but you are no longer here to whipe them away.
Your face fades into the distance,
a shadow
of a dream
of a memory.
I no longer feel your warm arms around me,
though I search desperately
for the lost sensation.
The connection fades faster each time we part.
So much of me has died,
through so many goodbyes.
My heart bleeds in its need
but you are still too far to cushion the pain.
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