the distance

I see you

so close I could touch

the tips of my fingers

tingle with yearning

and the memory that once

they reached out to kiss you

If it were just

a bridge stood between us

Would that it be 

so easy to cross

I wish I could say

and were that was all it would take

to close the wound that is distance

between us

But bridge or river 

or oceans and miles

The more of this time that slips

unknowingly by

Where once I could see you

draws farther and farther

and the bridge I could have crossed

grows longer and longer

I wish I could say

and were that was all it would take

Would just one small step?

to close the wound that is distance

between us 

But here still we stand

on opposite ends 

of a bridge we won’t cross