The Nearness of Distance by Celeste Syn

I don't know when

I started losing sense of distance

The further we were

the nearer I felt

To show or receive concern, I simply only needed to text

A hundred emoticons to express

But I couldn’t see your tears

Made to seem near,

yet with a chance to compose our emotions

Our true heartfelt cannot be sent this way

We have become mechanical beings

We end with a kiss

Tearing only after the lights dim

I miss the lingering warmth

There is no comfort to this loneliness in this dark night

This blurring distance

This inability to feel

Digitalised emotions,

well-crafted encouragement

I can only walk on bravely alone

What is left is only an ambiguous truth

We end with a kiss

Tearing only after the lights dim

I miss the lingering warmth

There is no comfort to this loneliness in this dark night

We end with a kiss

This has become a quiet norm and we would go to bed this way

My words will never reach you anyway

I’ll keep my tears to myself and this dark night