Mindy Schaper
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DISTANT LOVE

I don’t understand it
And it may not be for me
Still I can respect your
Individuality

Though our paths be distant
There is still love in my heart
I can gaze out fondly
While our ways keep us apart

Intercourse w’engage not
For our minds disparate be
It would only lead to
Uncongeniality

That is why I stay back
Smile crooked from afar
Know that though I’m silent
I still love you as you are.


​
January 26th, 2017

Written about the fondness I feel for people from my past and present with whom I cannot have a substantive relationship due to differences of ideals, temperament, and outlook.


Photo Credit:
Tom Heinze
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  • Podcast
  • Poetry
    • Black Cat
    • Open Hearts
    • Art
    • The Good Fight
    • Big Shot
    • Bitterness
    • Ethan
    • New Year's
    • Kindred Spirits
    • Daffodils
    • How Do You Love Me?
    • Crossing the Verrazano
    • Distant Love
    • Priorities
    • Fallen Angels
    • Somebody's Child
    • Cans and Cannots
    • Joy
    • The Written Word
    • Love On The Train
    • Stone Heart
    • Impossible Things
    • Control
    • Passion
    • Osmosis
    • Fire
    • Break My Bones
    • God Is With You
    • Imagination
    • Humanity
    • Camera
    • On The Incompatibility of Poets and Quants
    • Papers
    • You Never Promised
    • This Is My Prayer
    • Mile in Your Shoes
    • Trust
    • Better Man
    • Death
    • Time
    • Workaholic
    • Wrong Tree
    • Lying to Myself
    • Song of Ropes of Sand
    • Withered
    • Prisoner
    • Moth
    • Eichah: The Book of Lamentations
    • Kinah 8
    • Contrast
    • Knowledge
    • The Song Inside Me
    • Rocky Path
    • Venice (Travel)
  • Music
    • Dreams
    • Love Without the Drama
    • Dreams, Despacito
  • Design
  • Other Work
  • Contact
  • About