Long-Distance Friend

by The Night Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

We live three time zones apart. Your morning reaches me at lunch. My bad news wakes beside your bed. Still, we keep one conversation moving through the dark: a photograph, a voice note, the moon from opposite windows. Distance measures roads. It has never learned how friendship travels.
48 words · 10 lines · Free Verse
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