Distance...

See the shadow

See the light

See the whole world

Suspended in-between

Caught-up in the distance

An owl's eyes 

A mouse's whiskers

One frozen in focus

One flinching & fidgety

Hunger and fear

Gazing across oblivion

Glaring against the distance

Dreams behind blind eyes

Memories of photographs

A foreign face 

flat and fleshless 

stares from the surface

of a muddled mirror

This idea of who I am,

Who I've become,

Who I'm becoming,

Whoever I ever/never was,

Who I wish I...

My true unknowable self

All somewhere else now

Always somewhere else

Somewhere in some distance

Between latest facts

and eternal truths

Between understanding

and wisdom

Between the dream

and the waking

Across the oblivion

of all we ignore and forget

Unto the oblivion

of all we grasp 

until it all slips away

There is a distance

From failure

To triumph

From victory

To defeat

As the mind wanders

As the soul wonders

As we are stranded

As we escape

As we feast

As we starve

As we lay dying alone, 

or in loving arms,

or in strangleholds

As we struggle

As we surrender

As we remember,

or forget, or imagine

Past, Present, Future

There is distance

From life being given

To learning how to live

From every fatal fear

To every inspired ideal

From darkest nightmeres

To most illuminating dreams

From whatever it is we call, now

To effemoral efforts to truly be here,

and from here to the ends of eternity

In moments of perpetual passing

or times of transcendent timelessness

There is always a distance

All these places

keeping us going,

being burried behind us,

burring us beneath them

Places awaiting our arrival,

preparing our exile,

or just waiting all the while

As we seek to traverse

the vast expanse,

find our fateful place,

& explore the deeper depths

of all we can endure

All within the distance