Half of the World
Without realizing it, a decade slipped by in your company. Without realizing it, another year has gone by. Whether we realize it or not, each day crawls by on it's belly through happiness and sadness swirling together into treacherous storm clouds. That place in the middle where everything is calm and peaceful, that has always been the place where you are. On many occasions I have protested the elements of my life which might desire to pull me away from you. I have even said to their faces, "she is the one thing I won't just let you take me away from." Now we are separated by two halves of the world. On one side there is everything we knew and lived for years. On this side, there is something we have longed to know for ourselves. It may seem that our lives themselves are diverging at times. It may seem that this world could be enough to separate us after all this time. But you are still that calm place within my memory, and you will always be an enormous entity ...