Away And Apart Poem by Daniel Y.

Away And Apart



Sitting down, face to face
there is no bandaid, there is no brace.
I am 1,800 miles from home, staring at you through a screen.
Missing you with an aching pain.
Like a foggy window, made of plexiglass,
we can move behind it, but never pass.
Our fingers laid, can match the others.
Still, much too far away for lovers.
This dividing pane, cuts me in half.
The mocking muses quoteth plath:
(nodding on the left bed side) .
Tell me, what does the veil hide?
These bone bars which hold my heart,
constrict my breath and chain me short.
Like having four lead walls, caving in,
or perhaps I am a bug on a pin.
I flop about, a gasping fish
You make it better, but you can’t kiss.
Cause you’re not here,
and I’m not there.
You can’t even hug your teddy bear.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 25 July 2014

I first read this poem in April - that's about four months ago but it still has a great impact on me. Without any false emotion (read: sentimentality) you make the separation as palpable as the print on the screen and both you and your main squeeze (I like that idiom!) try valiantly to overcome distance with your imaginations. That's what makes this such a memorable and impactful poem: it summons the imaginations of self and others to ease the crisis. Near the end of his life Wallace Stevens wrote, WE SAY GOD AND THE IMAGINATION ARE ONE. Yes!

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Daniel Brick 17 April 2014

AWAY AND APART - A poem of frustration, trying to close the 1800 mile separation - If all efforts were rewarded, there would have been a breakthrough, because the poem details every angle of trying to circumvent the sheer reality of all those miles. Memories, joking, metaphors, sarcasm - you use it all, but they're still just words. There's a tradition of poems about the physical separation of lovers. I like Antony's promise in Shakespeare's play: OUR SEPARATION SO ABIDES AND FLIES/THAT THOU RESIDING HERE GOES YET WITH ME, /AND I HENCE FLEEING HERE REMAIN WITH THEE. Just words but so affecting.

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