Love poem: Long-distance
I’m alone in a garden
I been alone here all of my life
Won’t you save me from
Won’t you save me from
Feeling bitter, feeling warm
Wrapped up in a blanket through the night
I like the smell of blowing out a candle
Keep the fireplace on just for the light
You could find me downstairs
Interwoven with a dictionary in hand
So that I could find new words
To explain how I’ve been trapped
Someone somewhere is watching my back
I can’t call out by the river because it refracts the sound
Bends in ways
Like donut glaze
I subtract me from you when I take some space
I don’t need it
I don’t want it
You made me like this
In soft lavender and harsh footsteps
You made me face it
Love poem: Long-distance (continued)
Frozen strawberry
Smiling at you with raspberries on my fingertips
I spilled oat milk
It streamed down my fridge
Made a puddle on the floor that I crawled into
To spend some time with the ground
Press my ear to the wood to hear the underneath sounds
You had no idea
Bringing daisies to my doorstep
Would fill me up just enough to
Let some of the sadness leak out
I do need it
I do want it
You, with your arms around me even when I’m not cold
Heater on in the truck
Playing with the ballerina-slipper pink roses you got me
I do need it
I do want it
Otherwise, I’d be lying to myself
Love poem: Long-distance (continued)
But I’m so terribly afraid of
What it means to want to get close to someone whose
Distant
I’m going to let this go
Don’t want to let it get between us
Love poem: Long-distance (continued)
As long as you
Care
For me
As long as you’re
There
For me
I won’t let it get between us
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