There is a difference between loving someone,
and feeling bad for someone

There is a difference between long distance
and just space between strangers

You can love someone fully
and receive nothing in return

I loved you like I loved my first record
with a sweet, innocent joy

a fearless abandon soaring through cracked vessels
and filling broken chambers

You loved me like a student loves a vocabulary test
with hesitation and fear

You were a horizon to me something I could never reach on foot
but could reach though heart

To you, I was dust on a shelf
wiped away and forgotten

A jealous mind can turn away a heart
but you, a puzzle piece in my life
an unreachable person

That distance,
between the sky and the sea
Is too great for either of us to cross.