Poetry: Distance - by Melvin Palmer

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by Melvin Palmer

Created on: August 25, 2009 Last Updated: August 30, 2009

does the distance
lap the love from you?
is it selfish love
or true?

is the time alone
long for you,
or is it fun
and close?

does the darkness
of your room
swallow you.
or does a lotus grow?

what gives you courage?
what norishes your soul?
who cries in the corner?
silence is what i know.

care is the giver of light
my oneness with all even
darkness.
makes it through.

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If I run faster, will I go farther?

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by Jamie Stiles

Sitting here alone, thinking of the way it was.Under

Wishing it could be the same; That we could be close again.

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by Lolito Tampus

I can see long stretches of seas and mountains that separated us for many years

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by Heather Middleton

Distance

It drags us away

Take me to where you are

I spread my wings

Fly away

Reach for me

But these wings weaken

This distance
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by Jael Ravalyn

Somewhere amidst the ink on a map

Effects of distance reach out with a slap

When we know where we want to be

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