The Nearness of You*
My thoughts are with you tonight
although, we are miles apart.
The distance only embeds my love for you
deep within my lonely heart.
To understand this feeling,
that I cannot ask you to do.
However, please have compassion for me
and this love I have for you.
My sadness is for not being
near enough to prove this is real.
Yet a feeling of happiness for knowing
that one day I will get to share
with you the tenderness I feel.
As I lay here my body aches
for your nearness.
I long for the sound of your
and the touch of your
skin next to mine. Just to see your face
and to feel your warm embrace
would take away all that time has given.
And make this life of mine worth living again.
Sonji Rush Copyright 1998