I'm feeling those 8,481 miles more than before.
I didn't fully recognize how much I'd miss you
until you had already gotten up and left.
I find myself relaying stories about
all the funny things you've done
I miss your undeniable eccentricity,
nobody can claim that they have a friend like you.
4:40pm Texas time, 3:40am on the "treeless dune of sand".
I wonder if you're sleeping or if you're sitting up, awake,
thinking about coming home or about how your birthday
is tomorrow and you have to spend it in a country that you hate.
But most of all, I wonder if you're safe.
Have there been close calls, or worse?
It dawns on me occasionally that I wouldn't know anything about,
well, let's not talk about that,
it's a possibility that I don't like to entertain for very long.
You have life to live, and I have things to tell you
only two more weeks, and please just come back home.
Written yesterday. I forgot to tell y'all that I got into my 2nd choice college, so I'm pretty excited about that! Still waiting to hear back from the other one. Dear God, I just realized that I have had this up here for quite a while with "here" instead of "hear". Annnddd I'm about to go to college....
Comments
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
Thank you! We do need a like
Thank you! We do need a like button, don't we? Lol.
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
I second (or third, I guess)
I second (or third, I guess) the like button movement! ;) We so need one. Also, Erin, this was really good! Congratulations on getting into your second college as well, AHHH. It must be so exciting!
Thank you! It is :)
Thank you! It is :)
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
Nice poem, and
Nice poem, and congratulations for getting into your 2nd choice!! Maybe you'll hear good news from your 1st. :)
....but if we had a "like" button, there's less chance of getting a comment because it's the faster way of doing things - right?
"It is not the length of life, but the depth of life." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you! And that is true.
Thank you! And that is true. I would rather get a comment than a 'like'.
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
I vote for comments!
None of this "like" business, although it highly appeals to me as I am so lazy. Comments are worth so much more!
Ah yes, the poem. I really related to it..."until you had already gotten up and left."
I love the tempo of it; so slow and soft and longing, begging. "You have life to live" Oh yes.
And congrats on the college! That's all very exciting :)
Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we just go back to page one and start all over again?” – Winnie The Pooh
Thank you! Yeah, I think
Thank you! Yeah, I think comments are probably the way to go :)
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
Yes, comments!!!
Yes, comments!!!
I don’t thrive off of chaos: chaos thrives off of me.
I came back again to read
I came back again to read this as I like this one SO much....
Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we just go back to page one and start all over again?” – Winnie The Pooh
Well congratulations!!! That
Well congratulations!!! That must be pretty exciting. Praying for your friend.
God bless!
I don’t thrive off of chaos: chaos thrives off of me.