The internet can be a dangerous place. It can suck you in and you can forget all about the real world. I've been there. It can be fun and wacky and it can be downright lonely. You can be surrounded by people who love you in the real world and you don't even notice. There have been break-ups and divorces because one partner got sucked into a chat room or into an affair. When you spend more than an hour online, you've been on waaaaaaaayyyy too long.
Alone
I sit here alone looking at your photograph...
Alone...
No words on the screen...
Only my own...
Alone...
I try to go to other places...
Alone...
Where talk flows like wine...
Alone...
Where talk is giddy...
Alone...
where talk is of love...
Alone...
But I cannot enter...
I am so lost without you...
Alone...
The outside world beckons me...
Alone...
To come outside and breathe the clean fresh air...
Alone...
To frolic with the butterflies...
Alone...
To smell a rose...
Alone...
To kiss the sun...
Alone...
But all I can do is sit here...
And look at the empty chat room...
Alone...
Alone…
Alone...
© Skya Wode
December 01, 1997
