Sunday 18 March 2018

presence

I stare at the blank page

           open      on whatsapp, 

and I wait and I wait and I wait 
for the word to appear under your name


online


It flickers into existence 

like a hologram
   a mirage


online


transient letters 

      imprinted on a surface
    only a surface 



                    you surface 

         
online

          and for a moment in time
       time stops. 
and here we are 
we are both here


        so faraway

so very near
your presence lingers


         I disappear 


I go back
  
        online


you're no longer there

..... I stare and I stare and I stare
at the blank page before me
and there are
so many things I wish to say. I miss you.

so much, I wish I could make you stay


present


but goodbye is done

and we've already  become 
cyber ghosts


drifting in and out of unspoken dialogue

haunting....
                 presence 
your presence 
    I hope it never lessens
for it's all I have of you
love