In The Distance by Melissa R. Mendelson

In The Distance

by, Melissa R. Mendelson

In the distance,

I can hear their cries,

their hopes and dreams,

their demise.

In the distance,

I can hear their pleas,

their prayers,

their unanswered needs.

In the distance,

I can feel their burning gaze,

staring across the barrier

and through the red tape maze.

In the distance,

I know that they are there,

seeking haven in a broken foundation,

stranding them nowhere

with tears and dirt stained faces,

wishing to call home in so many places

but stranded behind the wall, wasting

as Time comes to do its job, erasing

the lives that we may never know

because in the distance, we’ll never go.

Stanzaic Stylings