A Distant Love

Long - distance relationships...

Its not that easy
Living with your invisible presence
Pretending that you are
Feigning that you exist
Within an arm's reach
But all I touch is empty air
Reeking of a rotting memory

I've kept you safe in my mind
A place where time cannot strike
You have not changed
I don't let you

But within this broken reverie
Through the tiny cracks that appear now and then
I find you on a distant plane
Unaware of the fading lines
That once bound us close
Now frayed; I hang on to them
Do you...

Have you, in your expanded vision,
Left all our promises buried and forgotten?

Have you, in your new found strength,
Left 'us' out, in the cold?

In a new life that you share
I guess, you pulled out all those old fragments
In a bid to be so new and fresh
For all those strange, new and fresh faces

Its not that easy
To be left behind in the waters of the past
They are stagnant and empty
No dreams grow there
Among the scattered carcasses of so many hopes
Ignorance, it has finally claimed that land

I wish I could understand you more
And I can, yet again
Justify all that is you
Reason rarely does bother with feelings
And it is they which command me

And I wish I could express it all
So that, for once, you could look beyond
Your narrow sphere of life
And see another
Helplessly entwined with yours
If only it wasn't so...

Liberating, is that what love is supposed to be?
But I feel entrapped,
Smothered by the growing distance
Its not mere figures anymore
And I am choked on all my unsaid words
Silence, I fear, is what I hear now
Deep within me
So don't accuse me of being silent
Because I have nothing to say

You disguise your fear well
If you fear at all
Hidden under your cheerful smiles and undying laughs
Is it a confusion similar to mine?
Are you still caught up in your flawless vision
Of a life unplanned?
Do you dream?
Do you remember?

Worthless questions and absent answers
And with a sigh, I have to ignore them all again

I wonder if I still know you
Long it has been since I last knew you right
Its not that easy
To love a distant stranger
A stranger strangely familiar
But for how long...

Author's Note

Something I've been feeling lately...

Reviews

[Silent Lover]

Sorrow is often sweet when dancing with love. We all reach, yearn, and dream, of a place, a person; anything to free us from the madness of the moment. The dulness between flights. The darkness between nights.

You capture the journey of human yearning, the raw cry of dignity. Your words reflect your willingness to gaze deeply into the cave of the unknown, and to walk into it, believing their is somebody there to embrace you - seen, or perhaps unseen.

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Poetic verses that whisper love, to that special someone that is far away and you feel like he's become invisible! Written with deep emotional feeling!

[Chris]

I returned...

[unknown]

My fear is i may experience this some time in the near future from someone that is special to me that i wish to be more withbut was pretty much told we dont know where the future is headed and if one of us were to move, long distance anything wouldn't even be an option :(

[Hotwater]

Sorrowful verse... upon sorrowful verse... it's like a sad letter of departure.
*bird*

[Priyankaabhilaashi]

Lovely..!!!

[*~*Butterfly Kisses*~*]

Long distance relationship are hard, and more than likely never work out unless you are simply meant to be.

Wonderfully penned,
~Anna Rose

[stars are far]

This is so nice .. well done ..

[Raven Starhawk]

So remarkably beautiful. Your words are ones I can personally attach to.

[Coyote Poetry]

Distance make the heart sad a and lonely. I know the feeling of this poem. I was always away from friends and family with the military. Lost many people and few could I find again. I like the question and the emotion of this poem. Sometime we are lucky. People fall upon the same road again. Thank you for sharing the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Amila Jay]

To be left behind in the waters of the past
They are stagnant and empty

An amazing write. Distant relationships are pretty rough and tough. Love the poem:)