a thousand miles from shore

it's easier to talk about love
from a distance.

easier
to remember it in more glowing
terms.

those rose colored glasses
still on.

the amnesia of pain settled in.
it's easier to discuss

beauty, and kisses.
of bodies

entwined. lovers
skin to skin.

distance puts a shine on
what it was,

what it wasn't.
in time it looks like a far away
ship

plowing through a blue
ocean

a thousand miles from shore.