Expanding Distance
Revision of a poem I wrote in the Summer of 2013. Strangely inspired by a piece of street art I saw at the time.
Quiet and tense atmosphere. Thin enough to be unseen. Thick enough to be tied into a Noose. Eyes aren’t making contact. A guard is up between two. An invisible tall and thick wall separates both individuals. The term friends cannot be used. The term family has long ago withered away The term associates is nonexistent. A better word for the two would be a dirty, uncomfortable, Loose but accurate word: strangers. The two strangers sadly. Long ago they were close. Long ago the two preferred each other and their company. Long ago they were friends. Now they are complete strangers to each other. Physically close in presence. Though extremely far from each other. A great distance where even a car could drive emotionally. Light years away from each other. A distance that is expanding. Expanding like the infinite unknowable. Expanding and growing like a future. The emotional distance large and by no means can be measured. An expanding and growing distance between two strangers. A cracked bond long left behind in the path of the expanding distance. The bond has long turned to dust. At the ends of the expanding distances are two separate strangers. Completely distant.
I thought it strong. I don't know what is au courant these days, yhe correct poem. I might have tweaked it. I sit in my stuff after i have rushed to send out to my dear ones. I rdit a year later. Who knows. Kudos. We all have to keep writing, casting off
nets into the sea of souls e