The Distance Is Better Than Being Close

By Yashvi Raval

"The distance is better than being close

Sitting next to you gives me fake hopes"

When I thought I was special

In your heart I had my fraction

& when I thought you were my forever

But you gave everyone equal attention

& I chose to be distant.

I thought I lost my sane

Balancing between real and made up image

Figuring out what all had changed

But there you were just the same

I guess it's my fate that you'll never understand.

It's not that I didn't try

But you called my name, as a friend

It made me cry

All night, you weren't there

All night, I wished someone was there

To set me free..

I suppressed my feelings

Before I could confess

You made your boundaries

Before I could digest

That it was never meant to be.

Seeing you now makes me froze

Quite late but I finally know

That distance is better than being close

Sitting next to you gives fake hopes.

It's not your fault, but it's not mine either

All these days we were together

For both of us it was quite different

I had so much to say

But there was a price of friendship to pay.

I try not to show it on my face

Coz that will make you sad

It is never what I want

You deserve to be happy

Even though I'm not.

Isn't it weird, when you were pairing me with somebody else

I hoped you to say yes

All the other guys liked me then

Except for you, what a shame

And now I feel how they felt

To be not get liked back...

I wish somehow you could know

What I felt all this time for you

You were a great friend

But it was me who expected something more

But now the distance is better than being close

Sitting next to you gives me fake hopes....

By Yashvi Raval