Love Poem: Distance
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Written by: Paul Russell

Distance

I gaze upon a beauty
that I can never grasp.
You are forever changing
as the years drift pass.

Shrouded by night, suspended
in darkness so I appear to you.
Bathed in light, watched by another
and I hide from view.

A Mother, a lover a giver of life
if only we were one.
I'm just a barren landscape, you give 
me meaning though your work is never done.

We belong together, we are
in a perfect balance.
I am forever staring;
I am in a trance.

You have been witness
to my change of face.
I have a darker side
that you can never trace.

I'm held from you by
an unforeseeable force.
I journey around your light
as I run my course.

All I have to offer you is
my unwavering attention.
Night and day I travel 
without any comprehension.

Of what is on your surface,
you give life but to who?
I'm often left to wonder what
dwells within the green and blue?

I may be nothing to you but you
mean the world to me.
I am just a simple moon,
but oh, the things I see.