I've only been away a week
Ago I left my house
My hometown is a photograph

My mouth quits, clicks, no noise
Pollution outside every airport
Parking drive around

A round circles under eyes
Language class text don't speak


The distance is near-sighted
And how far away is calculated in days
And the distances gets nearer-sighted

Till the far away extends out, expires, and dies.
Softly whispered schedule
Of movements from a space

A place mat organizing file folders
Getting bigger
Thicker accents start to swell

Slowly outwards towards the shoreline
Connecting dots where buildings
Grow up, $#&@, and rot to dust


The distance is near-sighted
And how far away is calculated in days

And the distance gets nearer-sighted
Till the far away extends out, expires, and dies.


A slow hour turns and passes away
A ways always in the air
Travel show them proof of

Miles flown into the waveless sea
I see the world won't stop moving
A loop, it's static.

Still nights vanish,
Sleep is a dream where


The distance is near-sighted
And how far away is calculated in days
And the distance gets nearer-sighted

Until the far away extends out, expires, and dies.