By Laurel Ahlfeld
Date: 2008 Nov 28
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Distance

You are 4,000 miles away
4,120.739 miles away to be exact
Which appeals to my melodramatic tendencies
But 4,000 seems to sum it up nicely
Our lives are 6 hours apart
You're waking while I'm sleeping
And my nights are just beginning
While you're closing down the bar
We just keep missing each other
In both senses of the word
I ache for everything about you
But neither one of us can do much
We cannot shorten the distance
That has grown increasingly quiet
Or wind back the clocks
That mock our waking hours apart