Away

I love you more when you are away.
Somehow our hearts magnetize
more as the miles between us increases.
I guess it’s the longing for your touch.
Or when your name pops up on my phone
and I get the jitters
(somewhat reminiscent of first date anxiety).
Or maybe it’s the way you can still be so damn spontaneous
in our routined nightly calls,
sweeping me off my feet
from a thousand miles away,
as I’m snuggled in your distanced embrace.

With your arms of security and comfort wrapped under me,
I find tranquility in the thoughts of us.
In those moments,
I can feel you.
And in those moments,
you are here with me.
I am lifted by memories of your strength
and your spirit
and they sustain me,
they take me higher.

And as I begin to rise,
somehow I lower my once-shattered guard
and slip between the cracks
and fall for you more.

But how do you that?
How do I continuously fall for you?
How does my overflowing love become more full?
How do you touch me from such a distance?
And how do I love you more when you are away?