long-distance musings...

You are and always will be
My right brain connection
My taste buds for sweetness
My eye for delight

I breathe in the essence
Of worlds disconnected
And feeling your gravity
I hasten my reply

Let me explain
This centrific illusion
This calculated mis-alignment
Of chaos and space

If it wasn’t for the future
I’d have no path to follow
With no money in my pockets
It was time to make my getaway

And you, most of all
Understood my tendency to wander
The darkness in the daylight
My quest to find a home

How futile all my efforts
To build the finest castle
The water and the tides
To wash away my toils

But you, you were the dock
The one I tied onto
Stepping ashore
And catching my breath

You, you were the moonlight
The sun on the harbor
This sailor’s best shore leave
And I’ll never forget

In some ways you are a soul mate
In some ways you are a lover
In some ways a sister
And mother you are

It's hard to imagine
A someone that's closer
As close as you came
(As close as we came)
To healing my heart

But there in your ocean
Where sea life becomes you
And sunlight caresses
Your dress and your hair

It's hard to untangle
To brush it all over
To put back the ribbons
To make it seem fair

For I am a dreamer
And you are a dreamer
And dreams are as many
As birds in the air

You, like the swallows,
Bound to your missions
And I like the crows
That are seen here and there

Now death to remind us
That we are not dying
And maybe the living
Is harder alone

But life is a good thing
A chance to learn lessens
A chance to feel love
And then pass it on

And though there be distance
That distance is nothing
We are swinging in harmony
I am close by your side

And here in our playground
There is room for adventure
Art, cards, and letters
Music and poetry,
And a love … that will never die.

Michael S. True
6/1/14 last edit 6/12/14