six feet apart

Day after day, I simply wonder

when I will be able to see you.

I look out my window

to see the green grass and birds

chirping loudly.

I haven’t left my house since

they put us on lockdown.

I did not know that would be the

last time I would be able

to see, touch, feel, kiss, hug

the person who I called

my boyfriend.

You have to go out

into the unknown.

They tell us to stay at home

but you cannot.

Your job is to save people.

Are you safe? I have to stay away

because I do not want this disease.

I do not want to give it to my loved ones.

But I want to see you.

To compromise, we have to communicate

through our phones.

Face to face on computer screens.

They said long distance would be hard.

I never thought it would be like this.

We have to love each other six feet apart.