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.
Oct 5, 2014
Oct 5, 2014 at 9:03 PM UTC
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.
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