Warm Distance; These Moments Never Again

Sitting in silence
Words echo in my head
Can you feel my spirit
Or to you do I seem dead?
See me looking out from behind my eyes
On without end to the starlit skies

I want to go
I grow so tired of these lies
In all the long good byes
The heart dies

I still sit in silence
With my creative license
Because I can't tell you all I hold inside
Just have to be able to feel
All that I am,
That I am at a loss to reveal

Hands in the cool water
Wash into the fire
Purifying
Still standing

Wrist deep in the motion
Drowning in the notion
All this needless comotion

Just stop for a moment

Feel my quiet
Like warm rain on the soul
Touch away the pain that still holds you so close

All this
Just the way I am
Holding in loving eyes
At a warm distance

So smile because of me
Let my life roll in your laughter
And watch the flutter-byes take wind
Hold my memory ever their after
Close to the warmth of your skin

For You and I
We together,
Will never know these moments again

Author notes

I haven't had a poem with two titles for a long time. This poem has two titles, interchangeable and one together.

So. Have you ever loved someone who you could not understand? You felt that link that brings you together, but you could never completely cross the rift that never allows you complete understanding of what is in their eyes, why they act as they do...

Now lets say that this one you love would look at you and smile knowingly.

That is kind of the whole poem.

This is written from the prospective of the one that is watching their love not truly know them, but love them anyway.
In this case, he knows that this rift, which is truly a flaw of his personality, will cause the relationship to end... so he will enjoy his love while he has them, though the wait is burdening.

Written to the song: Please Read The Letter - Alison Krause and Robert Plant.