Separations have a way

Of coming back to haunt

I need not be in another world

To feel the distance

That brings us together

And tears us apart

So palpable, that i can almost

Touch it

So bitter, that i almost

Taste it

The cold that has replaced

The warmth

The inches that appear

Miles apart

We can both see the cracks

And the facets hidden beneath

But we hide it behind the desire

Trapped in the loveless quagmire

And with each culmination

My heart demands to know -  

Doesn't it make us cowards

Beneath this shade of denial??

And still i smile

And still i continue

Because I'm so scared

Of hurting you.