Long-Distance Relationship*

20 Oct Long-Distance Relationship*

          “Every relationship is a long-distance relationship”

            Even as you weave your days

            From the same loom

            You may hold a different end of the garment

            You may sleep

            On the two corners of the bed

            Wrapped in different bubbles of dreams

            You may be separated by heartbeats

            You may be on the same page

            But of different books

            Like language is

            You will be inadequate

            For the other

            And there will be a gap

            Just big enough to

            Cleave your heart

            Long enough to cause a

            A tear

            Far enough for you to be distant.

*The line is taken from Sumana Roy’s much-acclaimed poem “Every Relationship is a long-distance Relationship”