It did not take 4,903 miles
4am phone calls
and 11pm Skype sessions

It did not take 17 mailed letters
3 shipped packages with
30 days waiting at customs for the
packages to be allowed between countries

It did not take 3 holidays
27 weekends
4 weeks of international flying
6 bottles of tequila

It did not take 2 new jobs
60 working hours per week
4 hours of sleep per night
and 3am good morning text messages

to realize the distance

Instead,
it simply took
5 days of silence

to understand how far apart two people
can be