Long Distance Relationship

They said distance makes the heart grow fonder, short answer; they lied. I know that now as I lay here with you on my mind, fiddling with memories of us but my image of you in my head is losing her smile, it takes mine in person with it too, my everyday coping with your absence leaves a grimace on my face, I feel the grim reaper coming for what we’ve got going on every day, and the feeling only grows stronger, courtesy; distance.

I may yell on this mandate I stand all I want, but while I feign laughter on the phone call this stance of mine is crippling all along, courtesy; distance.

You can fix broken bones you know, surgeries for body parts torn, but like there’s no such thing as medical grade surgery for a broken soul, hugs in the form of emojis can’t suffice for when you crave your lover to hold, on sunny afternoons I’m feeling cold, turn on the news I’m Iowkey wishing the headline would read that my lover is coming home.

I once had a boy, I still have him, Lord bless his living soul as he breathes still, for he once wrote: time, is a tragedy to a man alone, and I, well I, I’m utterly alone.