Where Are You?

''Where are you? You're standing here with me, yet only in my mind.
With you, I stop my faltering in the darkness caused by their kind.
Brainwashed by whom? I must leave you behind...but it's with you, a light is something I find.

Should I let you go? Leave you be? For who am I to take your happiness if it annoys you, but sets me free.
Where are you? Where were you before? Where will you be....with me? Do you care? Do you see?

Are you awake, or asleep? Maybe I'm the one that's dreaming.
But, please....don't send me careening.
Down into another abyss, which I've been to so many times, only hanging by a thread.
Deep into a place fueled by my own dread.

Some say I'd rather be dead, but that would be taking it too far.
I'd create only another schism between where I'd want to be, and where you are.

The space between....how long will that take?
The space we've been living on, causes my heart to break.

The space between the divided....is where we resided.
Until division got it's grasp on the world, and hate was invited.

Unconditional love was exported to a place called, ''The Mind'', where it's wishes, hopes, and dreams were one of a kind.

I'm staring at you now, as you seem physically there, yet your touch is as transparent as you appear.
Funny, actually, to think that I once saw you as just a peer.
For how much longer must we live in fear?
However far, however near, I'll hold you dear.
But....you're not exactly here....

Where are you? You're standing here with me, yet only in my mind.....''

(Originally written on 11/16/12)