The Distance Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Far away you are
from my vicinity,
I can hear the breath
feel the presence.
But I do know
there is distance.
I don't get away
from you even when.
I am away from you
I am the tree in
the woods that's you.
I am in the woods
I too am the woods,
But still where does
the distance come from
unwittingly into our midst.


I am chagrined to
the hilt about the
distance that exists,
the gulf that exists
between us.
Like that tree in the
the woods that you are,
I too feel rooted
unable to move.
I am inside, always inside
But can't fathom
the distance that lies between.


Like an island in
the vast ocean
I know that there
is the continental
being that's you
in my proximity
But I don't know
how to bridge the
ever present gulf that
keeps me apart from you.
I am a tree, I am an island
I am within you
yet I am distant from you.
And am painfully aware
about the distance
The Distance.