The Distance Between

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The Distance Between

I fear the lost art

The sculptor of the dark heart

Who tells me to play my part?

One hundred miles apart

 

I fear the dark art

Of the sculptor of the lost heart

Who tells me how to make the ark,

When we’re one hundred miles apart

 

I wish I knew

The painter of the chroma-key

Or the writer of the sea

To ask, “Could you recreate this scene for me?”

 

What I see, I can not hear

What I hear, I can not see

I’m engaged to what I fear

And divorced from the lovely key

 

It doesn’t matter

If you’re on the other side of the door 

It might as bee 100 miles

Because I have no key to free anymore

 

That’s why I fear

The blackness in outer space

Between the lights I might lose my place

Where all life is erased

 

The distance is growing

But it might as well be 100, a million, a galaxy apart

Because I’m practicing lost art

And sculpting the dark heart

As my love which swallows my fear

 

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JJMann commented on The Distance Between

08-06-2009

Hey Kex - caught your work earlier just surfing around, and at the time didn't take the time to say I thought there were some excellent images in this work. Thinking tonite it was wrong of me not to tell you - might not make a damn - but I can't take the chance it might. So, my friend, good job and keep striving for that elusive lyrical flow.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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