The Distance

Breathless I race to the edge of the Earth

Where land turns to water

And water rushes out to sea

With no end in sight.

This is how far I said I would go

To the end of the Earth

For you.

And when I get there

There is no turning back

Even when I discover that I am there alone.

My tears fall into the waves

Where salt water meets salt water

And there I am, thinking of all the things I should be forgetting

Instead of dropping to my knees to build castles in the sand.

Childhood is over.

The sun slips into darkened skies unnoticed and I am as far from home as I have ever been.