Proof 1

Wail!
At the injustice
Of missing someone
Across hours, miles, oceans
Time zones, political embargos
Only to have that person approach-
Five minutes
One floor
An arm’s length
Away.

(Close but no cigar, as they say)

In math, the problem with limits
Is that they can never be reached
What purgatory!
The distance
Halved
Again and again.
But still there is space in between.

But:
Remember that you are never lonely
When you’re alone
Only when you’re with someone
Who cloaks your brightness

And:
Remember that you can feel more close
To someone five hundred miles away
Than to the estranged lover beside you.

Thus loneliness and distance are not proportional.

(Still I want you to touch me with desire in your eyes).