Video phone, thank god for you
Because Missouri is the other side of the world
Because my new niece is there
Pittsburgh is too far away

A week is too long to wait to see you
flights and highways will be an eternity
but for now photos and videos will have to be enough
I just have a week to wait, but it’s not a year

Afghanistan IS the other side of the world
videos and pictures for a year, watching
the calendar slowly pass, a world away
my niece’s father will wait and watch and work