Missing you 
(To Tara from Yudi)
(Labour Day 1998 17:08 Malaysian Time 02:00 Davis Time)


Waiting in Cyberspace
The clock ticks on as I wait
Never seeing your face
Seems to be my fate

Starcrossed we seem
Like a cruel twist of fate
Kindred souls born a world apart
Someone upstairs has no heart

We`ll chat again tonight I hope
you`re a little late today
It's not your server I pray
But even if it was.. I have no say

I`ve been busy at work dear
Many a thing to tell you
About my hopes & dreams I fear
About the joy of life and it`s blues

I hope that you can spare the time
I hope that tonight you will be mine
I hope and hope and wish and mope
And try to compose this rhyme

I know it`s nothing much,
Wrote it while waiting for you
Just wanted to say and true
How I really really missed you!!

                                
Missing you - Part II
(To Tara from Yudi)
(Labour Day 1998 18:08 Malaysian Time 03:08 Davis Time)


Slow Slow Slow
An hour on the clock 
Seems like so much more
As each second hesitates
Like a drop 
on a closed tap
Builds up, more and more
Till it becomes a drop
Then stops
Right there....it STOPS!
Then falls, slow to the ground
To splash like a joker`s crown

Einstein was right about time
But instead of a hot stove
He should have said instead 
"Like a man waiting for his love-"
I wait for you this night dear
But where are you tonight?
Not fighting off your admirers with a stave?
Careful not to hit this pitiful knave
An idle mind`s a devil`s workshop
But an anticipatory one`s his factory!!!
Paranoia strikes fast and deep
And suddenly I fear for your safety...

I shrug off my fears and wait
And curse the very same technology
That allowed us to meet by fate
Launch myself into a discussion
That degenerates into a question-
Is it better to have loved and lost 
Than to have never loved at all
Laughing at myself again
How did this topic get into my head?
Why Shakespeare when my brain feels like lead?
I muse and laugh, thank the strands of Odin`s hair,
That I`m no Othello and you`re no Desdemona fair!


                                        by Yudisthra G