What Distance To The One

What distance to the one

As bound forevermore

By careless acts

And a stupid heart

That bleeds too easily

 

Oh comfort in such

In the passing of

Some like days

But not for the length

Of a long long life

 

Yet such seems possible

In different ways

When one is a dolt

And reasonably called

And blunderingly causes

Chasms to appear

Where none were before

 

What distance to the one

As bound forevermore

By careless acts

Here and now

I think it close

And painfully so

 

Charles Petrie