International Airport

International Airport

This nowhere, a contrived freedom
expatriate as air,
demonstrates our mastery
of what we meet or leave behind.

Each precise beginning
finds an ending imprecise,
as we fly to where or whom we wish
only to find them somehow less.

The conquered distance
returns within ourselves
as all that's joined grows relative
becomes a nowhere too. 

Until the town seems smaller
the loving eyes less absolute.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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March 1, 2023 at 12:14 AM
This is so well expressed and for me, captures something about airports I'd felt but never verbalised. Bravo!
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