No Tears (1500 Miles Away)

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soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

0 posted 2021-06-28 12:04 PM

(I wrote this ages ago about someone and then left it by the wayside. I’m giving it a second look. It still works, I guess.
She’s still 1,500 miles from me.)
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No Tears (1500 Miles Away)

You're fifteen hundred miles away
the finger traced distance on the map display
my emotional getaway
a million miles from me
so close, so far from where you ought to be
you should be with me

Ooh I've no tears today baby
nothing welling around my eyes but sunrays maybe
and if a sudden rain falls down
I won't make a sound

You're fifteen hundred miles away, away
but a breath I can hear across the echo delay
my heartbroken hideaway
A million smiles from here
these arms too short to try to hold you near
I wish you were here

Ooh I've no smiles tonight baby
nothing on my face when you're gone away lady
and if the moon never comes 'round
I won't ever be found

I won't die from the lack of touch
yeah I don't know a thing but I baby know this much
I won't hide when the heart cracks
yeah I will watch this film backwards to see you coming back
no I don't wanna see you leaving me behind
it's a lie to pacify the child swimming in the back of my mind
yeah I don't wanna awake to find...

You're fifteen hundred miles away
clear across the frozen skin of lost highways
my overdose underway
very few miles from harm
I find I can't crawl back into closed-off arms
and drown in your charm

Ooh I've no heart to trade baby
nothing pounding beneath my bones to fade with me
but if your love ever truly astounds
I won't ever come down

Oh yeah fifteen hundred miles away
from this freezing Colorado dawning today
but I can feel phantom fingernails of you
digging into me to obtain clues
all that I am
and mean to be
if you can see
I won't die from your lack of touch
but I know that you could mean so very much
to my lonesome existence
don't sit on this emotional fence
c'mon bridge the distance
yeah I wanna awake to find
your eyes meeting mine...

fifteen hundred miles away
will someday be cut down to
you with me and me with you
and I hope it will stay
forever that way

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” —Pablo Neruda

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2021-06-28 06:09 PM

an excellent poem, far from eyes, still in the heart, magical reading

yann

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

2 posted 2021-06-28 08:20 PM

soul drifter...Really like the cadence in this. Sounds like a poem but also a song of longing for a lost love so glad you brought this back from the dungeon. Thanks for sharing...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

3 posted 2021-06-29 05:06 PM

Souls, Missed reading you, Really like this,
& for some reason it makes me think of a fav song of mine"Mercy" Brett Young..have no
idea why..not about the distance thing,
guess it's just a feeling.

Sky~

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