Distant poem...
How can these memories leave me,
when your touches are all I can feel?
How can all this be just be dreaming,
when the taste is so vividly real?
Tell me how can the pain ever slacken,
if the distance just won't let it heal?
Or am I just alone in this prison
where time sets itself on it's heels?
What makes a man leave such a treasure,
the one thing that he holds so dear?
And walk freely into these environs
where, no one can really come near.
Then look back on what he is leaving,
and shed not a few heartfelt tears.
What words can I find to be spoken,
when you're too far away now to hear?
Please tether those feelings of anger,
thoughts saying that "I've let you down".
Remember those times when you saw me,
brighten so just from hearing your sound.
Please hear past my poor words so failing
to convey all the love you've brought round.
Just look closely and see these emotions,
naked now as the eyes of a clown.
How quickly the strong become kittens
when adrift in an ocean like this.
A hammer of absence drives home nails
tempered hard with the time we will miss.
Patience is the one thing I'm asking,
to prove your past faith's not remiss.
In your hands lies my only salvation,
save me now with a butterfly's kiss.
Jeffro