Love From Afar

I love you from afar!
Without smelling your skin.
Without holding you close.
Without touching the shape of your face.
I just love you!

I love you so much from afar!
Without taking your hand.
Without touching the depths of you.
Without sinking into your eyes and vanishing.

Setting aside this age's fashion of falling in love,
Not wild or mad, but simply as a man, I love you.

I love you so much from afar,
Without wiping those two tears from your cheeks.
Without laughing with you when you burst into laughter.
Without humming beside you the song you cherish most.

I love you so much from afar!
Without breaking you.
Without spilling you.
Without tearing you to shreds.
Without making you sorrowful.
Without making you weep...I love you from afar.

I love you so much from afar.
Every word I wish to say to you,
I shred it on the tip of my tongue, and I love it.
Drop by drop, the words pour out,
Onto a solitary white sheet of paper, I love you.