London F. Buss Poet Free verse

The Distance in Your Eyes

                                 The Distance in Your Eyes

   I see the distance in your eyes, then I realize
   I can feel the sadness in your smile.
   You’re afraid of the ocean
   I’m afraid the sea will take you from me,
   And although you’re a Pisces
   You’re not afraid of me.
   You love violence, thunder and lightning, in the storms,
   Always just out of reach, cold to the touch.
   Like breathless strangers running under the sun
   throwing shadows…. that become you and me.
   Then alone again, hoping,
   Hoping you will return and again we will burn.

   Where do our shadows go. as the music dies.
   Our shadows on fire.
   Burn as one.
   Concrete shoes,
   That joke left you breathless.

   Hanfer D, I saw you in the mirror
   and I wasn’t dreaming ….I know it was really you
   But I saw us together, just out of reach
   Then fade away, into the distance, in my eyes.
   And I know that you saw me, too
   we didn't know what to do.
   Our shadows on fire.
   Burn as one.
   Concrete shoes,
   Concrete Blues.

Hanfer D is an expression used by Faroe Island fishing family’s when a loved one pays a final visit after they have died.  Inspired by  song by
Eivor from the Faore Islands.   Called "Rain"....

   (c) London F. BuSS 2025

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