Waiting To See You Again

I feel this pulling

Like a coarse rope around my heart

Squeezing in desperation and forcefully dragging me forward

Along with time

But my body is stuck here

As the rope starts to dig into bare flesh

And my weakness is in this love and

In this waiting

I feel like I'm underwater

And the surface is frozen over

I can see you when I close my eyes

But try as I might

I'm still trapped under this ice

The seconds are barely ticking past

And my lungs begin to scream

And my head begins to reel

Blood is rushing to my head

I can feel it pulsing behind my eyes

Wrapped in a strange paralysis

Like a tight white coat

My limbs are confined

And yet my being is reaching out

My soul is calling

And it hurts to not be heard

Nails biting and teeth clenched

Everything is pounding

Like an inexhaustible bass

But the screams ripple and my sinews stretch

As time plucks them like tight wire strings

To need is an understatement

I can hear my bones, brittle and loosely woven, clattering against each other

Bouncing off the muscle and skin

I'm tied down and held back

By the dark metal restraints of distance and of time

Shivering alone and missing you

Soon the dreams will be real

And I won't have to wait for the deep night

Just to be with you.