Thursday, June 13, 2024

Distance makes the heart grow fonder June 5, 2012

 

This far out

I need a telescope

To see what is

Right in front of me,

While you say

Distance is likely

To make me feel

Less obsessed,

I find the old adage

As true:

Absence making

The heart grow

Fonder,

Looking at it all

As if all is new

When nothing is,

A paradox you claim

As splinters

That reveal our

Inner lives,

Too close

You seennothing

But pores and

Poor excuses,

Nothing translatable,

Just a mysterious

Universe of

Me and you,

How many times

Can a man say

Sorry before

It sounds phony

Even in his own ears,

Distance may make

The heart grow fonder,

But by your logic,

It gets chilled in

The depths of space,

The whole universe

Is just too vast

For a simply mind

Like mine,

And yet,

Too close to the sun

And my wings melt,

There has to be

A happy medium

Or at least

An unhappy one.

 


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