By Edmundo Daudi
Date: 2010 Jul 20
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Distance


You're 8,124 feet away
I measured it today
and Mapquest says "four minutes drive",
to arrive beside your smile's side

A bird could fly from mine to yours
so fast as blink your laughing eyes
as fast as you make all your knuckles crack
as fast as a broken-hearted lover's sack

When the thunderstorms come I see them ply
their voltaged bolts on your building's side
God, just a god's stone's throw away
where I wish i were on whatever day.

Too bad, there is an issue though
the one that Mapquest doesn't know
that surrounds my heart and soul with throws
the throws of death love often knows

This issue, bitter cup of grass?

That my voice, my dance, my beats, my prose
the juice of all the "I" I knows
lacks the sweetness to on you impose
the structure of my hallowed soul

Which leaves me geographically
with "emotional distance" reality
the one that sacks me, breaks my heart..
that grabs my head by hair
shoves my eyes up, makes me see
that your lips are gone eternally
that your hair will be touched, but not by me
that your perfect's flown away definitively
and that you are as far away as you could ever be
and getting farther, faster than a timba harmony.