Close But Yet So Far: poem by Maybelle Strouble

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You’re Close But Yet So Far From Me

You’re close but yet so far from me.

I feel your heart has never been free.

It seems you have always lived in fear

Of loving those you should hold so dear.

Can I, please, suggest to you

Someone who will always be true,

A friend who will be there to the end.

Jesus is that Someone on whom you can depend.

Maybelle Strouble is a senior citizen, mother, and grandmother. She started writing poetry

when someone she loved died suddenly. “God let me know he still had more for my life.”

September 2025 issue