Vicinity

You were there more or less
In all that I could ever guess
In leisure or in some duress
Beyond any words to profess
For grievances to any redress
it was hard enough confess
If touch could only caress
and comfort a soul in mess

You were there more or less
Stranger of an unknown address
Sometimes cursed, never blessed
Your love was mostly suppressed
hardly expressed, rarely impressed
Closely held but never assessed
blatantly desired to be possessed
nascent enough to be obsessed

You were there more or less
In all the emotions worst or best
In open caves or in a closed nest
Like a storm that has no quest
Hell grips you with an interest
And a heaven you want to conquest
But a pain that burdens your chest
If you only knew when to rest

You were there more or less
Tired with a lack of persistence
filling me with a hollow presence
Empty with a chaotic existence
In silence and in utter negligence
In tormenting turns of turbulence
If proximity made any difference
along the silent infinity of distance

©gladiator001