Emily Koch - 'Away'

Away

When I’m not there
Where are you?
What threatens you?
Whose words wound you?
I worry too much
That while I’m not with you
You will suffer
That I will return to no you
Or a new you.
But now I’m thousands of miles displaced
Hoping that while I am well
You don’t know pain,
That while I smile
You don’t shed tears,
That as I gain
You don’t lose.
Know this:
Love lives here for you,
Across continents and through time
Until love with me moves home.

© Emily Koch

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