Disclaimer: If I owned FullMetal Alchemist Ed would have stayed in Amestris and I wouldn't need to write this poem.

Distance by KageSakura

Golden orbs, a river

of passion, fury, energy

flowing through.

A whisper,

not whispered, "I have to."

A touch, a smile.

Never had to be so brave

to say

"goodbye."

A brush, a breeze,

as tears dry.

A promise under a false wave:

"See you later." A lie.

A cry, a broken song.

The wind carries it

far and long as it silently echoes:

"Don't go!"

A silhouette in the distance

of a retreating back;

as golden as the sun.

Setting the other way.

A wish. A prayer in a

broken tongue,

"Be safe."

A goal, a reason to turn

and run.

A journey. A gate.

Hope and destiny interlock and break

as a door shuts closed.

"You promised."

No windows. Dark shadows.

Eyes cast downward towards

a wall. Cracked; slipping down

on lost lips the words. "I know."

Far from everything

and yet too close.

"Did you even care?"

A question asked too many times.

Solemn to the last breath.

Across two skies, a letter.

Unsent.

A day. A month. A year.

Far too long.

The world expands beyond comprehension.

A touch that isn't there. A voice you can't hear.

"I miss you"

An invisible smile, on a patient table.

A shadow of nothing and yet everything.

A memory. A melody once forgotten.

"I need you."

And the music burns

in deaf ears.

A star a light

brightening a dim room.

So far away

across the universe.

A message not yet delivered, so rehearsed.

"I'm sorry."

A/N: I'm thinking of writing more poems for all types of elements of the FMA fandom. I suppose you can call this a work in progress though I think it's a pretty good start.