The Space Between Us Poem by Leria Hawkins

The Space Between Us
Date: October 2,2015

There’s just this space between us
More distant every day
Seems all the love I feel for you
Can never win your grace
Your love is just a fantasy
That’s kept me holding fast
A self-made grand illusion
A dream from season’s past
I’ve waited for your whispers
More than you will ever know
Holding on to fancy
When I should let it go
You’re exactly where you want to be
A fact that’s crystal clear
I’m just the nice diversion
A whisper in your ear

After all these years of holding on
I think I’ve earned the right
To says just what I want to say
Sometimes to pick a fight
So if it’s just not worth it
And you want to let it end
Have no fear my darling
I’ll take it on the chin
I am your darkest hours
A discomfort in the day
A trinket just to toy with
To wile the hours away
For me it seems a tragedy
A slow and painful death
To love from a distance
The one who steals my breath

There’s just this space between us
The fissure’s deep and dark
It started as a whisper
Then stormed into my heart
Your confessions leave me flustered
Crushed beneath the ruse
Of excuse and innuendo
That leaves me feeling used
My rope is thin and twisted
I’m hanging at the end
With no one there to catch me
I’ve neither foe nor friend
All the years I’ve wasted
Hanging on the line
Waiting for sincerity
That never will be mine

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