Why? (entry for the current contest! my first time entering! good luck everyone! I had to work on this during a power outage lol) Distance here can mean various things. A child without a mother.A parent without a child. A father or spouse without their other half. The world is split into two with the absence of one. Grief persists into ones soul as they keep reaching out for this specific person. You never know if theyre gone in the story or from the world. All you know is that the distance results in GRIEF.