<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550498" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Distance Is and Was</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His distance was like a slickness of blackness and ice<br>Outside the trees wept with damp leaves of loss<br>And the arrogance of dark winter's cold drew near<br>Clawing the softness from every living thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her needs were not clear, but the pain of her loss<br>was etched as sharp as a scrape in soft, timeless metal.<br>His soul cried to help with heart-felt compassion, but the<br>wise cunning of distance crafted her sad, subtle traps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Distance it is, and Distance it was, Distance was the master<br>and craftsman of their simple love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His desires of things unsaid beat inside his head like some<br>strange moth of passion, but when he grasped the mechanism<br>of his loss and pain, he could but fail in expectation of certainty<br>that would feed a raging thirst across arid deserts of sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Confusion would raise it's harsh cold chisel to chip and wear<br>against the heat of Love, while he and she would grapple<br>against the easy route of pain and recurrence, would battle<br>against the seduction of easy and mindless dismissal of Distance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Distance it is, and Distance it was, Distance was the master<br>and craftsman of their simple love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kevin+Patrick+Brown">Kevin Patrick Brown</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550498" data-title="Distance Is and Was de Kevin Patrick Brown" data-description="His distance was like a slickness of blackness and ice Outside the trees wept with damp leaves of loss And the arrogance of dark winter's cold drew near Clawing the softness from every living thing. Her needs were not clear, but the pain of her l..."></div> </div> </div>

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