Love at a Distance

"Alteration"
Here, within the solitary walls

of my room, in the quiet unresponse

of this small city,

I am taunted by the absence of your

summer eyes

your warmth and pure intent

embedded tenderly in the midst of my recollection.

Each night after the

long day's continuance of miles

between us I fall asleep

embraced by the remembrance of

your arms and my home in them.

These cold cruel miles like

prison bars standing erect and immovable

in the center of us

Great canyons that have thrust through

the surface to alter our perfect valley.