Does absence
make the heart
grow fonder?

With The One
who’s meant
for you.. it does.
The One
whose absence
feels like loving peace..
and not uncertainty
and chaos.

The One
in whom you know
a piece of you
is always living..
Both in their heart
and in their head.
Both when you’re present
physically right before them..
and just as much
when you are far away instead.
And when the very same
can just as easily be said
about a piece of them
that lives within yourself.

The One
you think of
when you first
awake..
and right before
you fall asleep
upon your bed.
And even in your dreams
when Morpheus is
generous and giving..
you may behold
a mirror image
of their loving Geist
within your psyché
now and then.

And so it’s true, indeed,
that even absence
makes the heart
grow fonder..
But only when you
truly love each other.
If that is true,
not even distance
carries the capacity
to separate
the two of you
from one another.

Your heart grows fonder
in their absence
not because they’re missing..
But because
you’re missing them.
Because the waiting,
in anticipation,
only sweetens
that impending moment..
when you may love
and hold each other
closely yet again.