When I was a teenager and the boys I liked would drive me home, I would sit as far on the edge of my seat as possible. Leaning up against his headrest, my arms around the chair like it was his own shoulders, it felt the most comfortable way to hold a conversation. I felt unable to be out of his closest proximity for even a moment.
That’s how I feel about you sometimes. You on one side of your desk, and I scoot my chair about a foot forward so that I can place my notebook on your desk’s surface to write. Now that my task is over, I still sit here, knee up against your desk, reading my book until I had this epiphany! I needed to write this poem down, to capture this feeling of needing to be as close to you as possible, my sister, my best friend, my love, just because close to you is the best way to share your time.
However close I can get.
Elizabeth Day is an author, poet, blogger, and playwright from Las Vegas, Nevada. Her work has been featured in The Just Girl Project, Empyrean Literary Magazine, Contemporary Jo, Hey Young Writer, and Fterota Logia. She is a student at Southern Utah University studying English education with a creative writing emphasis and double minors in theater and film. You can find her on Instagram @itsanadventur.
Featured image by Olena Bohovyk.
