The Distance to You

Photographs on a computer screen

What’s it all supposed to mean?

Witty phrases and romantic quips

Deleted keystrokes left unseen

It all adds up to the distance to you

Scrolling through pages of endless faces One shot deals in so many places

Practice runs to find a match

Hanging your head from ample disgraces

Unaware of the distance to you

The farther you are from me

The harder you are to see

Stronger still my desires grow

To reach out on a limb with my plea

To whittle down the distance to you

Studying the words of poetic lines

Earning a phone call to hear a voice

Weighing the experience of a companion

Trying to inform a final choice

The closer you are to me

The stronger my feelings grow

The longer you are near me

My defenses start to go

In hope of erasing the distance to you

Is it all just an excuse

To avoid a second try?

Is it all about the truth

Or spinning one short lie?

Are the menu options all that matter?

Thinking this through just makes me sadder

Is there ever “a first to be the last”?

I’ve had enough of this emotional platter

I’m running now to cover the distance to you

But I wait on your call

Wondering if it ever comes at all

In deeper sadness I start to fall

A feckless, dramatic voodoo doll

The closer you are to me

The deeper my feelings grow

The longer you are near me

My defenses start to go

Cutting down the distance to you

The closer you are to me

The more that I want to be

The stronger my feelings grow

The longer you are near me

I can shorten the distance to you

Breaking down the distance to you