I've only been away a week   Ago I left my house   My hometown is a photograph   My mouth quits, clicks, no noise   Pollution outside every airport   Parking drive around   A round circles under eyes   Language class text don't speak      The distance is near-sighted   And how far away is calculated in days   And the distances gets nearer-sighted    Till the far away extends out, expires, and dies.      Softly whispered schedule   Of movements from a space   A place mat organizing file folders   Getting bigger   Thicker accents start to swell   Slowly outwards towards the shoreline   Connecting dots where buildings   Grow up, fuck, and rot to dust      The distance is near-sighted   And how far away is calculated in days   And the distance gets nearer-sighted   Till the far away extends out, expires, and dies.      A slow hour turns and passes away   A ways always in the air   Travel show them proof of   Miles flown into the waveless sea   I see the world won't stop moving   A loop, it's static.   Still nights vanish,   Sleep is a dream where      the distance is near-sighted   And how far away is calculated in days   And the distance gets nearer-sighted   Until the far away extends out, expires, and dies.