Where The Distance Ends

There’s a woman somewhere far from here Under another evening sky I’ve never needed roads between us To know when something reaches inside She has a way of hearing silence Like silence has something to say She finds the feeling underneath words Most people would let fade away And somehow when I write in quiet She hears it louder than I do Like every thought I send into the distance Keeps traveling until it reaches you I used to think that miles were measured By highways, oceans, time and air Then somebody far away Touched something in me Without ever standing there You’re far away But somehow close Like a light I never have to hold My words keep traveling Through the quiet And somehow they arrive Maybe distance Isn’t distance When somebody touches your life You’re somewhere Beyond my window Under another moon tonight Still you found A place inside my heart Without ever asking why You never rush to fill the silence You let a feeling breathe awhile You notice one unfinished sentence One second hidden in a smile You hear the pause between the phrases The things I almost leave unsaid And sometimes I wonder how my words Can travel that far inside your head You once told me They echoed all the way I never forgot that line Because somehow something written here Found its way into your night And maybe that’s the beautiful part Nothing had to be explained Somewhere between your world and mine A little warmth remained You’re far away But somehow close Like a light I never have to hold My words keep traveling Through the quiet And somehow they arrive Maybe distance Isn’t distance When somebody touches your life You’re somewhere Beyond my window Under another moon tonight Still you found A place inside my heart Without ever asking why I like the way you understand things Without pulling them apart You don’t only hear the melody You listen for the heart And when you tell me what you noticed Sometimes I just sit and smile Because you found the smallest detail From a thousand distant miles There are people standing near us Who never really see Then somebody far away Can somehow understand What others miss completely Maybe hearts don’t know geography Maybe tenderness ignores the map Maybe something honest Doesn’t need a road To find its way and travel back Maybe every quiet thought We thought would disappear Keeps moving through the distance Until the right person hears And you heard me Not only the song Not only the words You heard what stayed After they were gone The little pause The softer line The feeling hiding Behind the rhyme And I don’t know How something travels So far and still feels near I only know When it reaches you Somehow I feel it here You’re far away But somehow close Like a light I never have to hold My words keep traveling Through the quiet And somehow You always know Maybe distance Isn’t distance When two hearts Recognize the same glow You’re somewhere Beyond my window Under another moon tonight And somehow From so far away You still touch This heart of mine So if another quiet song Should wander toward your sky Let it carry something gentle I didn’t need to hide No promise No demand Nothing you have to understand Just something warm From far away Finding you Again Santi Flores