"Distance"

"Hey love, time to get up. I think you’ve been sleeping too long. My day started when you were still yawning. One room just ain’t enough when it’s two folks trying to get along but it’s hard to leave you alone."

"Oh love is always better when we take time to get back to who we are when we are apart. Distance makes the heart grow"

"Even when I’m lonely, I’m happy knowing that your love is never far. When we are apart distance makes the heart grow. It makes the leaves on the trees fall. It makes the hours in the day long. Makes me wanna clear my head, find a little cafe and write the words to a song and I know that I’m still free. Be anywhere that I wanna be. Maybe get dressed up, wear something real pretty that you ain’t never seen."

"When you love it makes it hard. When you trust it makes it hard. When you call it makes it hard. We’re alone when we’re apart. In the middle of a fight. Walk away to make it right. Where we go, we’re never far. In the light or in the dark. On a plane up in the stars. In a movie or at the bar. Home alone or out to tea. Look to your heart and think of me. I wanna love you. Don’t wanna try to change the pace of your life."

"We get together we make it good. We get together."

"Hey love time to get up. I think you’ve been sleeping too long. My day started when you were still yawning."


(Emily King on Distance,  2014)

“The Marks Humans Leave Are Too Often Scars.”

Tanda yang manusia tinggalkan lebih sering berbentuk luka.
Biarlah kutelan bulat-bulat luka itu,
kelak jika kau kembali, mungkin sudah kulupakan wajahmu
dan aku akan berkata,

"Aku telah mencium. mengecup. menelan luka darimu. Mampuslah Idul Fitriku karena doa-doa kacau di dalamnya tentangmu. Dari segala luka, merindumu adalah usus yang terburai keluar dari rongga dada; adalah otak yang meledak terus dipompa beban pikiran. Semoga luka itu mewujud, menjelma pahit. Sepahit-pahitnya nasib malang para peziarah di Afrika. Sehingga tak akan sudi kupahatkan senyum lagi di matamu."

Sungguh amat berterimakasihlah aku
pada cenderamata yang telah kau titipkan pada batinku ini.
Terbanglah, jangan kembali lagi.
Aku sudah bahagia kali ini.