Omid;

Distance is only a word.

Structures; held longitude for hours.

Taking each hand in my own like 

they’re wings on a firefly - 

wings that give flight to light;

“Wish me well,” she said while I thought it

and the way her smile caught it (she caught me);

Oh, and she caught me, she did with ease,

crossing fingers like a promise carved on each tree;

each leaf, each vein and each green string, omid.

You took the bird right out of the sky, you did,

and you even found the one that I brought back

home to tie a knot ‘round its foot so it could

deliver a promise and a kiss, and god it was such a distance.

That bird held a letter longitude for hours, to find you - 

to find a way for me to get through (to you, love… to you).  

Planes; held latitude for seconds. 

Upright she stood while I tilted in a daze, and I could feel her breath on my neck as we embraced. She pulled away and her irises caught mine - no sentiments aside, all passions alight - and I could feel her hands on my face as I brushed a tear from the place where her smile met mine; absent hearts united for the first time. Enveloped in her arms (and all of her - her voice and her smile, her eyes and the way I was hers as she was mine), running a delicate hand through her hair as I had done a thousand times in my mind. Her eyes inclined to mine, on her toes as she brought my lips to hers to kiss for the first time: once briefly to prove it real, twice slowly for the way it feels, and thrice entirely for the love that it yields.

(So invidious, the distance.)

Reviews

[Amanda Granger]

Every image and every line calls to mind something unique and special. You are truly an extraordinary, emotionally compelling writer. The imagery you use mixes the symbolic with the literal and physical and really makes an impact on your reader. You make them feel your love (or whatever you might be feeling); you perfectly convey the uncanny connection you have with that special someone. ;) I love the prose poem stanza (and the subtle references hehe) and the overall flow of this work, and I admire your large vocabulary and subtle manipulation of language to convey exactly what you are trying to say and more, even. There's a warmth to your writing (and especially to this work), and it's utterly captivating. You shine through your writing. Great work. :)

[Jimi Brady]

Thank you sooooooo much, dear.