Love Poem: Unbridgeable Chasm
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Written by: Brian Sambourne

Unbridgeable Chasm

when distance cuts at love
           confounding closeness
we grumble at Skype connecting
                           broken in its transmitting
togetherness on the edge of confusion 
turbulence of modernity
when we're unsure of what lies ahead
in slim rays of long distance longing

can love fall its way to slumber?

our chasm
settling in our lost sleep
life imperfect like the moon in pot mark littering
to trigger all our fretting

we sense where things are headed
with careers of solo plotting 
no rich romp of reunion, pending
when lives re-uniting are tangled
                    like Christmas tree lighting 
no strategy for bridging an abyss within 
when the desire to live one's life
                 unencumbered 
                 pushes all else aside

                 for now