Distance Poem by Ivan Donn Carswell
Distance
If I stay
I will see less
of what I imagine most
as the face in the mirror
grows grey
If I go
there’s no
guarantee I will greet
what hopeful thought gladly
feeds me every day
If I stay it
will present
loneliness as a
hard-wearing
consequence
If I go
still being alone
may see in me
the best company
solitude knows
If I go it will
at least condense
distance between dreams
and reality though
the gulf still stays
It is a fence
that keeps me here
the fear that you
actually wanted it
this way
© 29 September 2009, I. D. Carswell
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4/26/2024 6:47:00 PM # 1.0.0.1119
If I stay / If I go - the poem is based on the fundamental question - you find a very original argument to stay in the final lines - to stay out of spite!