We sat right next to each other in that chairlift, 

but we couldn’t be further apart. 

I suppose it was just his way of trying to reach out to me, 

but at the time, I was either too hurt or resentful to see it.  

Well, that night, I remember the cool, crisp mountain air, 

and us drifting over the tops of all those pines trees, 

and seeing the stars twinkling the way they were, 

so distant and vast the universe, and thinking… 

how far,  far away we really are, my dad and I, 

and how very alone I was…