If you are far, then what is this I feel <br />The weight within my heart, upon my hands <br />If this is distance, does it fall <br />Between us, does it own us <br />Or do we tame and name it for ourselves? <br /> <br />If we cannot be sitting side by side <br />To watch the crucial moments of the night <br />The falling of the sun, the rising of the tide <br />The duel of stars and moon, are these not seen <br />On every shore of the same mother earth? <br /> <br />If there are tiny birds that sing <br />Around your hair of sunlight when I call <br />Will I not be so glad to know the song <br />That softly breaks the silence of your sleep <br />While I rest here with music and guitar? <br /> <br />Distance, tides, the winds of human fate <br />Dress the land in newly-fashioned clothes <br />For each new dawn, expression of our hearts <br />The words we cannot say <br />But know will pass between us every day.<br /><br />Frank Bana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-3/
