When Home’s Just a Thousand Miles Away

When home’s just a thousand miles away
Matan Ar’ye Schwartz

Your body of stone, stoic coming in from behind…do not turn your face from me/your breathe wrapping around me like a blanket:I hear your voice calling me as you haunt me in my dreams, following me, beckoning to me as you leave me once again in tears: the feeling of a lovers embrace/all I want to do is hold you one more time:to see you once again…to tell you that you look so beautiful tonight.

But you have me walking these streets in this industrial wasteland; so cold now as the sun vanishes with the coming winter as I start to shiver/every step I take away from you hurts more than the one before it. I can’t breathe as I’m overtaken by you and I just wanna go home, but I’m walking these streets under the moonlight because I fear what awaits me in my dreams. It hurts so bad to wake each day alone as I fight the morning light for just a few more minutes of memories: one, a hundred, a thousand hours not enough to recall and recount every moment I’ve spent with you:each day I have to wait to touch you again becomes an eternity/intolerable cruelty I must endure before I can once again reunite with the only love I have ever truly known.

A thousand fears run through my mind:if I should die before we meet again a thousand fates I’d rather suffer than to never be with you once more…if only for one last day…for one last moment.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, Jerusalem

My heart aches for you…Israel with your shores of blue and the forests that surround you like emeralds as birds rise to the sky bringing with them prayers that roll off the lips of children….markets full of people and food and in the desert life sprouts forth while midnight lovers embrace under waterfalls and in the cloak of night their love shines through the darkness.

The music of everyone’s soul audible to all who take a moment to stop and listen as camels traverse the land like boats in an ocean. As the world spins, changing all around them: the further things change the more some things stay the same…Jerusalem, you remain intrepid…and I’m holding what love you’ve given me in my heart and it’s what’s keeping me going until I can come home to you once again.

When home’s just a thousand miles away.