The Urban Distance

In a city vast and wide, two lovers strive to coincide,
Their lives entwined through busy streets where every moment barely meets,
Her calls unanswered late at night, his work demands a constant fight,
In each missed glance they drift apart,
lost within separate reveries of the heart.

She sits alone in candlelight, waiting for his voice tonight,
The silence grows, a chasm widening that nobody else can see or know,
His office lights burn through the dark as deadlines close
and dreams take flight,
He wishes for her soft embrace,
but work has shouldered love aside and taken its place.