Distance
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I wake in rooms you're dreaming in.I wonder what you seeinside the sleep you're gleaming inand underneath the sea,and deep in The Sahara,and in the pit of me. I speak in rooms you're silent in.
You get in my face,
And all up in my space,
To say you cannot breathe.
But 6 feet underneath,
Are those who succumbed
2 minutes, and I'll see you. I'm looking forward to it. We haven't spoken in a while. I hope you still think kindly of me.2 minutes, and the wind rushes by me. It signals your arrival. I barely recognize you walking toward me.
your eyes happy
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clothes neat
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if only i could get closer than 6 feet
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I want a future that is both yours and mine.
I want to have dinner parties on the porch and drink wine while the twinkle lights shine.
I am stuck at home finding random things to do,
But all of this time being here just makes me think about you.
I don't know when I will see you again, and it is driving me crazy,
Mystery my dear
That's all you may see
Some see a challenging view
Some see a hurting soul
Who were you?
Who will you be?
Soon you will return, I'll be by your side
I know you will be gone as soon as you arrive
3 months spent far away, another 6 out farther
Maybe spending 2 more years before a chance at forever
Distant yet close
A phrase all the more indifferent
To a young child unlearned about the closeness of family
Life gave it meaning once my sister moved from usAnd that distance surely changed me
They say that
Distance
Makes the heart grow fonder
But I was fond enough
When we walked
Alongside one another
When tragedies happen
we often think, "it didn't happen to me,
So it doesn't matter as much"
we think we are a safe distance from the violence.
That's what they want us to think.
What I’m Not
September 13, 2018 ~ Thursday
There’s music in the hills
Sounds of song on their backs, fronts, and sides
That which I’ve never heard
Is it self-torture to allow these thoughts to steep in my head?
I miss him.
The cruelest part of love is distance
especially when brought in close proximity:
it hurts to see him every day.
It was unexpected.
The moment in which our eyes met.
Your eyes shone like the ones of a child opening his christmas presents; full of happiness and hope.
It was unexpected;
Now I know what it’s like
To fear the loss of someone-
It’s terrible,
Horrible,
But what accompanies it is a tender notion,
A soothing feeling you can’t replace.
Search the earth, the skies, the space,
10 feet
The distance from my desk to yours
I don’t know that for sure
But it’s a close enough guess
You and the other girls used to chase the boys at recess
But you say
That you only did it for Joseph
How do you love one person so much
That the world just stops
That instead of a person
They're just an idea
A passion
They rule your thoughts
Your stories
I could sit here
tracing lines
in your hands
Outside of time
endlessly
full of dreams
A buzzing phones
the trance that
held me ends
I am thrown
You have been held many moments
But in the morning, what's to find?
Face after face, all fading into one.
Growing cold and distant-
Wondering if your heart is still capable, of just coming undone.
Dear Friend,
Never could I have pictured,
We would be here today
With everything and nothing figured
Not black or white, just gray.
Five years ago, we had everything,
I C.
I see how your heart is a diamond-
it is not neat, rather rough-
but all the world’s light is found inside it.
I C.
Dear Mi Amor,
All it took was a pie
And two little girls playing way up high
Every day was a day our friendship grew
And little by little we did too
Sunrise to Sunset
Have I left
My beloved one
The one that I asked the skies for
In exchange for my career dream
As her smiles will go missing
As her kisses will go missing
Will I be able to continue?
salut, mon petit!
that's how i greet you
since we're both french minors
and we're both multi-ethnic
and we grew up in the same hometown
and we were born 11 days apart
To My European Staring at the Stars,
The only way a bit of me will ever lay in your hands again,
is a letter from me to you.
Sticking on the return address at the top,
Night is an infinite rotation of stars
Across a sky that outlines infinite black power lines
And radio towers, with a repetitive, slow blink
Like the eyes of a lightheaded, lusty lover
They blink
I find it
Fascinating
The tiny
Futures we
Envision
With one
Another
Despite
Knowing in
I needn’t be
The chains that
Bind you so
Alas I fear I’ve
Unknowingly
Become your
Keeper
Liberation,
She called it,
Discharging pet
Lovebird from the
Foreign shackles
Named commitment
Maybe it was too much what I put you through, in the end I always thought of me and you.I asked you to hold on when things were rough, you tried to hide it but I could see things were tough.When I shouldn't have been lonely I was, in those times I
There you are
where I could always admire from afar
See your light, Its radiant colors
Melting into the ocean waters
Here I am
Take me on a train from the first departure to the last arrival.
Let me travel the earth in a short amount of time. Let me see the mountain's white and the grass's green, with the dead leaves.
I could say, that your voice is the most enchanting music of the world
I could say, that your hair and your smile shine with your own light
I might say, that your eyes are windows to a paradisiac garden
Je pourrais dire, que votre voix est la plus enchanteresse musique du monde
Je pourrais dire, que vos cheveux et votre sourire brillent avec votre propre lumière
Where did you go my friend?
You left me all alone in the cold
Your reasons I cannot comprehend
My feelings and thoughts I put on hold
We had each other once again
Old friends comforting our pain
In the distance there is a decision
Months will pass before it is decided
But there can be no change or revision
Within my mind, I am undecided
A thousand miles
is a lot
to walk
in bare feet.
But for you,
I'd grow the callus
like a badge of
honor.
I wonder if you think of me
During the time in between
When I saw you then
And I see you again.
Do I linger in your consciousness
Like you have settled into mine.
Hello, my love
We haven’t spoken much lately. You say it’s the distance.
I don’t believe that. Distance is just the time that it takes to make a mistake.
She has curves that will take your breath away.
She has peaks that will give you vision.
Time does not exist, when you feel something like this.
She has given me strength to move forward.
Alone at nightI note the distanceCount the miles that keep us apartThat separates our two heartsMost nights it's hardAnd to be honest sometimes I just want to give upGive in to the distance
We met under the white gazebo fair,
The wind blowing north up the sunlit shore
Your eyes, blue ocean and the bright sand, your hair
Before me was all I had ever yearned for
I thought we were closeLike the constellationsClinging to one anotherAgainst the pull of the night sky
It all started in a sea wrought of Red and Black
Independence among me, us three, never looking back
But every backbeat moving me forward to the sound of music
Imploring the euphoria we seek, of beauty.
Silver streams of moonlight illuminate the breaking
of the waves against the shore. Ice-cold water caresses my feet,
caring and comforting. I wrap my arms about my sodden self
It's getting to me how I'm much closer to strangers than my mama How if my eyes are unfocused in the morning, I could easily grab one of my three roommates toothbrushes How I can't hear my sister's snores from the bedroom next door But the girl
The distance between the strife lands of Texas
To the blest Appalachian Mountains.
Thee sagacity of the discrete peoples
With their eminence taste in music, yet I still wish to be home
Your first day at a new schoolThe first time I turned around in class to ask you a questionThe first time I gave you a ride to soccer practiceThe first time we went skiing in Colorado together
Do me like my name is music
Treat me like I am your music or muses to poetry yet to be created
Though physically isolated and mentally shaken
Still tethered and anchored
Patiently awaiting the weight lift
Today is her first birthday
On the twenty-first of May.
She looks beautiful on a 3x5,
But I’m a million miles away.
I’m a million miles away,
It's been a daySince I thought of youI wonderDo you miss me too?It's been a dayBut a day too soon.
out of love / out of reach
grounded hope / lost at sea
sank beneath liquid courage
woke next to unholy debris
Your presence my heart it longs for my dear,
Without you I find myself in great pain,
Being slave to doubt, prisoner to fear,
I cherish the time seeing you again.
Two hearts divided constantly stressing,
Here I stand,
Far from you.
In our hearts,
Emotions so few.
We speak and talk,
Whispering promises of love.
Yet the paved future
Washes away like chalk.
You try to help,
Here I stand,
Far from you.
In our hearts,
Emotions so few.
We speak and talk,
Whispering promises of love.
Yet the paved future
Washes away like chalk.
You try to help,
We were the best of friends.
Laughing, joking and letting the laughter fly.
We became the best of lovers.
Laying together beneath the midnight sky.
We became distant lovers.
Those 653 miles that made me cry.
Thou worriest over me, this I know,
It brings content and my heart fuzzy warmth,
But, my love, thou art too lovely for so,
Thy knows that worriest I'd scorn'th,
But how can I frown on angelic thee?
I found that we were raised in an abandoned city torn apart by the pessimists who were famished by lack of dreams and the impoverished who sold their hearts to fear.
I love you so but you're not near
So far away and now I fear...
You'll soon forget about me,
The memories and everything in between,
The time we spent of laughter and smiles
I know no man before or after me
Could pen a word, my pining to convey.
Thus when you find yourself again with me,
Our rejoining will mark a splendid day.
Time never lasts for as long as it should
The curtain falls as summer fades away
We made it farther then they said we would
The skys darken slowly changing to gray
Stealing kisses round a campfire's glow
maybe if we enjoyed the lullaby of empty
dial tones, we would fall asleep somewhere
amidst the clatter of unanswered phone calls.
there is a melancholy to be found in silence.
I.
in Appleton, Wisconsin, there is a boy named Cael
who dreams of Copenhagen and draws demonic flamingo.
his spine is curled the wrong way from countless years of binding.
my best friend and i have matching smiles like the insides of oysters and the same amount of melanin in our skin. it’s magical, really, how we look like family but live a time zone apart.
Wanting,
Aching,
Craving
The World.
To expand my mind to places farther than my backyard or the church,
To learn a language of love by being surrounded by foreign lovers,
Back in the day i wouldnt even know this is you
Every move, every word is brand new
Your love for me you aint even gotta prove cause you see it in me, i see it in you
I don’t know you anymore.
Yes, I know your name.
But I don’t know you.
I know who you use to be.
We talked about everything under the sun back then.
Stop.
Hold tight.
I’m terribly lost.
Your eyes slay everything.
Too deep, dark, haunted, hunted.
Recharge this battery, just sit close.
You mounted my heart on the wall.
Do you know the definition of distance?
When I can't turn around and see you
or walk down the street and be near you.
I go throuh everyday looking for something that isn't there but all I find is my shadow.
Standing behind the curtains
Hiding from the crowd
He really wants to see her openly
But his presence is too loud
She’s been waiting for her moment
It seems it’s finally here
Billions of people in this big world
But all I want is you
Millions of people in this state
I hope you need me too
Hundreds of miles may keep us apart
Not even busses and planes and cars
Miles and miles and miles to go
These last few weeks have been quite the show.
Just a lost girl trying to escape
Lost in the world the size of a grape.
I fell in love with the ocean,
Its murky depths became my home.
Everyday I would go to her,
Skip rocks over her delicate skin,
And she would tickle my limbs,
Her cold hands trembling in my presence.
Home is a small place that somehow still has room for everyone.
Home is filled with strangers. Definition: Family you've yet to come to know.
Oneida says she's out of timefor mining lies from crooked mindsand spending nights beneath strange blanketsstreet-to-street, tab at a time.
I yearn to love ones kiss,
to enforce a sweet time of bliss,
a sorrowful ache upon my heart
which leaves me to miss my lover's embark.
I swifly move on
to a trail of your thoughts,
Can you believe it, I'm leaving in three days?
How could I, I didnt have a say
I'll miss you babe.
When you get there write me a letter kay?
The life we've had that I once knew sweet memory's that consisted of nothing but you. But you know how to destroy things, feelings I have had are being pushed to the past all because you can't pick up a phone.
Everyday I sit here
Watching the hands on the clocks slowly creep their way around the circle
It means nothing
Time, time means nothing
Hours could go by, but that won't make me any closer to you
You hear a voice
You think it's someone else
you realize it's not
you wish it was
you dream they'd appear
tell you they miss you
you're disappointed
shocked
I can't do this anymore
your words are drawing me in,
but you're so far.
I want you to be near me,
on me, in me.
I want to taste you,
feel you, and know you.
I want to lay beside you
My knight in shiny armor
Is but a mere common man
Who I learned to intensely adore
By taking me to worlds no one else can
He entered my Spanish world
Opened up a new book of knowledge
Though her lips say she doesn't,
her eyes say she still does
love him.
She looks at him like
she looks at
no one else.
It's cliché,
but her eyes do sparkle
and light up
I try not to count
The months,
Hours,
Days,
Minutes,
Leading up to that day.
To the moment it will all end.
I try,
Honestly...i do,
But I can't help it.
I am in love with this girl.
This girl makes me feel emotions I've never thought I'd be capable of feeling.
She is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life,
with her silky hair,
big rosy cheeks,
I turn on the radio and that same song you sung
brings back memories of you being gone.
Every time I saw you I felt as if I was in a dream,
but now that it's over I know it was just a scheme.
College Life is fun for me.
I like to go out and see
All the students walking by.
They stare at their iphones
and often hit their knee!
It is you that I am missing.
All of your hugs, as well as your kissing.
We were once so tight, so close,
The new distance between us binds me in ropes.
The love is still there, I hope you know,
Going Our Separate Ways
My eyes begin to water
As I crave your warm embrace
Missing you is like a deadly sin
It breaks my heart
Youre the stars in my sky
youre the boat on my sea
i dont need anything else as long as youre next to me
youre the wind in my hair
youre the foggy breath in the air
as long as im with you i dont have a care
I know me,
I drain and I kill.
I take hearts,
I have no fill.
I know me,
Hold the hair back,
Scars fleshly gleaming,
Inside turned black.
I know me,
Sometimes we threw punches,
Both verbal and with our fist,
Though the bruises left over,
Whether on our ego or on our face,
Fair
What is fair?
The fact that you have him there with you
He holds you, and tells you he loves you
The feeling of being safe and loved in his arms, overwhelms
Rarely is a feeling similar
I am a bird that’s been dumped in a zoo
brightly colored, where everyone can see
an attraction, fluttering and new
A life given, a life taken from me
Testing! Testing!
Screaming through my head,
quivering hand,pencil of lead.
many questions left unsaid,
motor boat of a heart,
filling with dread.
Testing! Testing!
Tests begin, light bulbs go up.
You sent me three text messages last night:
"I’m drunk as fuck over the toilet man"The nightmares beneath my skinthreaten to possess the shell ofmy body.I am nothing buta diseased corpse.
Distance is like a spark, indiferent of the fuel only offering ignition.
Fueled by emotion, there is a reason most stop at the notion to ignite this flame.
You are simply beyond my reachA treasure I can no longer keep For holding on to something at such a distance Meets with such strong resistance
Talk to me, please
Put my mind at ease
You claim to lack the time of day
But we both know those are mere words astray
I yearn to know; what is it really?
I'm eager to ask, but is it silly?
When the sun awakens in the morning
and I awake from my dreams back to reality
I feel how strongly my heart misses you, its killing me
I try to push it away and focus on something else with all my might
It's crazy how things change, the type of isshh that'll make you feel strange. I dont belong here, im not wanted.
He became distant
Speaking for five minutes
Leaving me with “I love you’s” and unanswered questions
Goofiness gone, conversations short.
He looked at his phone, hit ignore, and left with his friends.
"I have to go now, but don't look
so glum dear, it will take a lot
to keep me away for too long
again." But I cannot let go.
his eyes are coals without ember,
Our words lay out
On the roads between us
Straight as the I
Sharp as the L
Curved as the o
Strange as the v
Exit at the e
Meeting at the Y
Curved at the o
Arrive at the u
A year now we've been together
although sometimes its seems like forever
at first I wasn't sure I''d fall
for a hunky guy 6'3 tall
but somehow you captured my heart
You know it's true when you only have reasons to smile around them,
or when your thoughts are flooded with their words and actions, your smile just sticks around for once.
When it comes to my feelings,
My heart beats only for you.
This is a simple way I know,
The love we share is true.
Your smile, your laugh, and your gentle touch,
It is hard knowing we’re this far apart,
doing nothing, but missing each other.
The space between seems simply elongated,
making it hard to think properly.
Want you here, holding me in your arms;
Sometimes, I wish you could see me;
have a video tape recording that you watched
at the end of every day,
that played out the events of my day to day life
like a movie
They say
That you and your mate
Are tied by a knot
On a an invisible thread
That keeps you together
Despite what may separate:
A couple miles,
An entire country,
Two continents,
I don't want to ask for much but will you listen to me.
"Something has changed,
It might be a mistake of the past,
but I'll cross this distance,
letting my words reach where I couldn't have before,
Our hearts were once bound by white thread.Your illusions of a stronger netunraveled the fragile bond holding us together.
Three-hundred eighty-four miles apart.
Love knows no distance,
right?
I'm leaving soon.
You promise me your heart and I promise you mine.
I promise:
Love’s fool that treasures my heart
With many distances apart
There is no one to blame, just I to start
The one who is painting this work of art
Many have come but the chosen is one
I once lived in a town with a bar on one end and a church opposite
The days were filled with haze and the nights lingered as the hands on the clock kept ticking
Let mebury my face in your chest.Imprint my lips on this sculptured perfection.Let memelt your coreMake you human once more.
Looking around this place, it is quite apparent to see
Nothing here is free for you and me
Whether it be by colonizers and systematically by each other
If I went back to the start, that would be the end of me
See me I take her heart, but let her keep her dignity
Physical symmetry was what initially appealed to me
That Life we Live
We don't live the life of boredom
We are free, we are birds
We are always on the move
seeing new things, & new things seeing us..
I will change, you say
But do you know what that means?
Are you really a man?
Go ahead, hit her again.
Maybe she will stay.
Maybe she will forgive you.
No no, not this time!
While walking down the street one day
I heard a small boy cry
Why hath this life have no meaning
And why do people die
I thought to myself
"oh small boy everyone asks someime"
(Time enjoys playing tricks on me.
Coming to you,
it drags its hands.
Leaving, it swiftly
carries me away.
And when it gives me a spare moment
in which to think,
it taunts me with your memory.
In this world exists somewhere peaceful in all its natural beauty;
A place where the evergreen grows,
And the fallen leaves rest on the grounds of the earth,
There is love, hate, happiness, bitterness
Your lessons were heard, not grasped
Until now there was no willingness to listen
Until now I didn't realize that you were right
You knew what you were talking about
We exist only behind the words we speak.
Standing at this distance, we forever reach.
We swallow the affinity because we know deep down it can never be.
We put the dreams to rest and embrace the reality we live in.
Time flies way too fast
There is no reverse
Youth is fleeting
My childhood is in pieces
Is this what reincarnation is for?
Re-do
Do over
Can I take everything I have done back?
These eyes are round gems
black, I get lost in the looking.
We do not speak.
Our words, cut short,
leave telling shadows
pooling, staining the table cloth.
If you were here
It would all be different
The way the leaves fall off the trees
They could glide the way lips graze over teeth in smiles
Dear Anthony,
I'd like to set aside order for a moment
And what's inadvertently thought of as important
To spill my heart on a palette
With words left uncalloused
Waiting to engrave
I'm shutting down
What else am I to do?
Till you come around
Till then I'll wait for you
So broken
How I feel inside
words unspoken
All these feelings denied
Where the pavement ends is where I’ll be,
Waiting for words I long to read.
These tears you see are just rain,
Streams that fill empty drains.
The years have gone by a little faster as they pass,
Airports never sleep. They hold all the times and schedules, the departures and arrivals, the hugs, the tears, the goodbyes and hellos. They hold all the moments in between waiting and moving. Airports hold every piece of me from you.
You said it would only be a few months. Months turned to years and years turned to never. Time is merely vapor and we were merely smoke.
See you soon
Is a hopeful phrase
Look to the moon
In its full round phase
There is a face
Hiding in the light
It reminds me of the place
Where I fell in love at first sight
It wasn't my first
When I'm gone and far away
May our memories always stay
Within our minds and within our hearts
Even though we are far apart
As long as you’re by my side,
The Distance matters not.
My heart is tied to yours
By strings of immortal trust.
Forever.
For always.
I just want to know,
how far this poem will go.
Will it reach you at sea?
Will you be thinking of me?
Will you hear it in your sleep?
Will you think about about it when you weep?
So I wrote this rhyme like a recipe
A little bit of Ebonic linguistics, verbs and the essence of time
With her natural beauty surrounding my mental on all sides
Her bright smile tattooed on my eyelids
To whom it may concern:
What is it about me that frightens you?
Is it the way I talk? The way I walk? The way I’m shy?
If you really get to know me I am a nice and sweet guy.
... as years, months and days pass by, I always think of you. wonderin' whether you are thinkin of me. one day we will find away back to eachother knowing that we belong to one another. when I hold you, I will feel secure.
FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST!
Black America has been inspired
By these words from the past
But are we truly free?
This question puzzles me?
When our fellow brothers and sisters
Diced pineapples, Its the little things that count
Too much isn’t a satisfactory amount
More than perfect
A couple miracles in sequence
A goddess to be worshiped
your every action is ingenious
Distance is what keeps us apart
The thought pushes through my head till its clear
Like a busy commuter on a New York street
And though I’m still uncertain of your heart
I pray tomorrow you’ll be near
Life’s not meant to be lived easily
It’s not easy to live life peacefully
Hardships has been beating me recently
If only I can live this life decently
But I’m hitting obstacles constantly
Distance makes the heart grow fonder
but the wait just feels so much longer
truth sets in and the realization hits
memories of the past come back in bits
how can it hurt so much
