How To Discover The Distance Between Two People
By Liz Rae
It did not take 4,903 miles
4am phone calls
and 11pm Skype sessions
It did not take 17 mailed letters
3 shipped packages with
30 days waiting at customs for the
packages to be allowed between countries
It did not take 3 holidays
27 weekends
4 weeks of international flying
6 bottles of tequila
It did not take 2 new jobs
60 working hours per week
4 hours of sleep per night
and 3am good morning text messages
to realize the distance
Instead,
it simply took
5 days of silence
to understand how far apart two people
can be