Post by Laura Stone on May 19, 2008 20:15:56 GMT -5
Nine Hundred Miles
I think of you there in your apartment,
with your books and your plants, and Lola,
your cat that seems interested enough
to paw at your leg before slinking into a corner.
It is cold.
It is grey.
It’s a spring day in May in Pennsylvania;
I am missing you.
The nine-hundred miles stretched between us isn’t forever,
but you’ve not been well and I’m not there
when you wake in the night with sweats;
when your body aches and you want to sleep for days;
when you call me to say,
I don’t know, I just don’t feel right;
I should be there with you.
It’s been months now; you said you’d keep an eye
on things, would go back to the doctor soon if you
didn't get to feeling better, but the soon comes
and goes, comes and goes with little change.
I convinced you enough was enough
and when the phone rang a few days ago,
I didn’t want to hear it.
Nothing else matters:
not the sun, not the grey,
not laughter or trees;
only life, and you;
in hours, in minutes, in seconds;
your touch, your warmth,
right now.
I think of you there in your apartment,
with your books and your plants, and Lola,
your cat that seems interested enough
to paw at your leg before slinking into a corner.
It is cold.
It is grey.
It’s a spring day in May in Pennsylvania;
I am missing you.
The nine-hundred miles stretched between us isn’t forever,
but you’ve not been well and I’m not there
when you wake in the night with sweats;
when your body aches and you want to sleep for days;
when you call me to say,
I don’t know, I just don’t feel right;
I should be there with you.
It’s been months now; you said you’d keep an eye
on things, would go back to the doctor soon if you
didn't get to feeling better, but the soon comes
and goes, comes and goes with little change.
I convinced you enough was enough
and when the phone rang a few days ago,
I didn’t want to hear it.
Nothing else matters:
not the sun, not the grey,
not laughter or trees;
only life, and you;
in hours, in minutes, in seconds;
your touch, your warmth,
right now.
