Long Distance Relationship Poems

Many consider long distance relationships to be some kind of limbo. It doesn’t have to be that way at all. People in an LDR can use the physical separation to become better individuals and have their love for each other grow at the same time. Nowadays, technological advancements have made LDRs easier to manage, and constant communication possible. Plenty of songs and poems have been created because of the bittersweet beauty of an LDR. Below is our carefully selected long distance relationship poem collection and excerpts from song lyrics which reflect its unique joys and sorrows.

I’d brave fire.
And I’d brave rain.
To be by your side, I’d do anything.

I can’t take the distance.
I will go the distance.
I will go the miles.
That’s how much you mean to me.

-Excerpt from the song The Distance by Evan and Jaron

Long Distance Relationship Poems

The Space Between
Where you’re smiling high
Is where you’ll find me if I get to go
The Space Between
The bullets in our firefight
Is where I’ll be hiding, waiting for you

-Excerpt from the song The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band

Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.
Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind.
Now you and I are quits. Why bother then
to balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts.
Behold what quiet settles on the world.
Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation.

-Past One O’Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Long distance relationship poems reveal the unique challenges of living apart.

If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I’d count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen’s land.

If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I’d toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time’s uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.

-If You Were Coming in the Fall, Emily Dickinson

Long Distance Relationship Poems

When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
I call out for you against the jutted stars
And shout into the ridges of the wind.
Streets coming fast,
One after the other,
Wedge you away from me,
And the lamps of the city prick my eyes
So that I can no longer see your face.
Why should I leave you,
To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?

-The Taxi, Amy Lowell

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