Do Not Disturb

Written about my best friend. Our distance was difficult for me.

I fear I’ve lost you

To minutes, hours, days, months

To clichés about being so near, yet so far away.

 

You make excuses

Excuses that cause you to make more excuses

I know you’re afraid of the pain you inflict.

 

The phone stays quiet

I wish you hadn’t gone away.

The walls have lost hope of ever hearing you laugh again.

 

The too-hot room much cooler now

Bed replaced with desk and mounds of work

“Do not disturb” messages no longer hanging about.

 

You came back for Christmas

Only to leave with promises of never being gone too long

Only to leave with your presence already fading away.

 

Things are changing

I think I’ve lost you to your other world.

A place I can’t reach because it is yours alone.

 

Things are changing dear

I am scared that time will make it too easy to stay gone

I am afraid of the settling that comes with distance.

 

I know you say it will never happen

That you and I are “destined for life”

But how? When I’ve lost you to minutes, hours, days, months.

 

I promise to hold on the longest

When everyone else believes you’re never coming back

When everyone else forgets the sound of your laughter.

 

Reviews

[Dalaina Renee]

Very cleaver!