--- title: Miles Apart date: 2025-03-15T03:55:07Z modified: 2025-08-20T09:07:59Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/miles-apart/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 4559 categories: - Love Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/miles-apart.jpeg" featured_image_alt: miles apart author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2025-08-20T09:07:59Z tags: - Love Poems --- I wrote this poem while sitting in my hotel room tonight, thousands of miles from home. The weight of your absence feels heavier with each passing day. I find myself reaching for my phone just to hear your voice, to bridge this impossible distance between us. ![miles apart](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/miles-apart.jpeg) miles apart I check the time zones on my phone again, calculating the hours between us, imagining you moving through our home, the space emptier without me; your [morning coffee steams](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/steam-rising.md) by the table, the newspaper spread across our sofa, your fingers tracing headlines i cannot [see](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/i-sometimes-can-not-see.md), your sigh carrying across continents; i [wander through foreign streets](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/wanderer.md) at dusk, passing couples with intertwined hands, stopping at shop windows to find gifts, each one a promise of my return; the video call connects with a soft chime, your smile breaking across the screen, our words falling over each other, time suspended in digital embrace; sleep finds me with your photo on the phone, dreaming of moonlight reflected in your eyes, [counting the days](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/you-may-count-that-day.md) on the calendar, distance measured in heartbeats until home;