Distant Intimacy (A Short-Form Poem)

Our eternal bond crosses over from this reality into the realm of endless possibilities.

Songs of purity ring out faintly through the dark abyss of forgotten and meaningless time.

In your smile, I see life.

In your eyes, I see change.

In the way life’s colorful winds enrapture us into a whirlwind of hope and intimacy, I begin to understand your soul as you start to understand mine.

We lock eyes, forever hovering between that moment of contact and that moment of forever longing.

Awaken.

Yet now, in the light of day as I lay here awakened from the dreamy land, I find myself rediscovering what the purpose of life truly is about. Upon a land of tattered dreams and broken truths, I find peace in knowing there will always be love in the world.

Once found in the dark of night, I now find myself venturing through the spiraling corridors of truth. I now find comforting solace in my loneliness within a kaleidoscope of endless torture, turmoil, and travesty.

Your words were the only heavenly guide for my wayward heart. But as we’ve grown apart, I know our paths have diverged into two separate and distant journeys.

I ponder only for a brief moment; ponder on what could have been. But I soon realize that I’ve become my own person as you have as well. You always knew that I’d wake up from my false reality to see the light of humanity’s truth.

We are beings meant to live freely. We are told to explore both the physical world and the world within ourselves. We are meant to hold onto a deep-rooted intimacy with a softened grasp, for nothing is ours to claim. 

We are merely guests to a world gracious enough to house us.

You were my everything; you were the joy to my life and the beating to my heart. But I’ve come to accept that there are so many ways one soul can love another. Even if it means from afar forever.

Forever in Your Debt,

Leon R.M. Auguste

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