We're Miles Away but I Can Still Hear You Breathe

Sometimes I feel like you're slipping
farther and farther away.
"you know it's better this way..."
As days turn into months
I can feel the heart strings being
s - t - r - e - t - c - h - e - d
to the point where they begin to tear,
feather, break apart and become
merely a faded representation
of who we were and how we used to be.
Yet sometimes at night I can hear your voice
in the creaking of doors
and whispering down halls,
"i know where you've been,
i know what you've become..."

But I trust this distance
cause that has always been
what we have crowned
one another with.
distance & destruction.
"distance & destruction..."
A word that we tried so hard
not to claim as truth but always
alwaysseemed to creep & crawl
it's way into the cracks of our hearts.
"the world is bigger than us,
we are nothing but a definition..."

I still think of you.. thinking of me.
do you?
do you?
oh who am I kidding?
I know you do.

Originally written January 1, 2006.