Distance
2 December 2024
She said
“Seek happy nights to happy days”
But happy days seem so far away when you are
Every moment feels like I’m waiting for this phone
To light up and for me to know that you are on the other side
I can’t let it be my life but it is my love line
And that love finds its way to every cell in my body and binds me closer
And it feels like it pulls me as tight as your arms do
And leaves me with the desire to
Count down time
The world moves on, but here I’ll stay
Waiting through another day
And I will wait for forever
If I could have from that endeavor
Just one moment in your arms
But some things I can’t change, not for lack of trying
Trampled flowers don’t die but grow again in a different way
It’s OK, I can live today while photographs of the past and speregraphs of the future live with you in my heart
It is the world to me that you are in my life
And I have wanted nothing more than for you to know that
So every missed call, bad day, a fight or a response delay
Can hurt a little bit but we take the kick and grow
Because we have to, we have to know how
To handle this bizarre situation
That lovers centuries ago could never even fathom
We are in the most fortunate Earthly time
Because we have this chance.
And how beautiful it is that we embrace it
That we take it because it’s worth it
Because you’re worth it, you’re worth any wait I could have in front of me and any weight I could have to lift.
So I love the prospect, but I will love the now
And I will love you, no matter how
Far away you are
—GL