Wafflings

I felt like I cheated by not finishing my blog entry for the evening for lack of material time. To make up for this laziness, I will post a poem I have written years back. I havent written any new one lately, I dont know why.  But anyways, it is about an internet love, when you felt you connect on different levels. It felt like it was real. Trouble is we were separated by a 12 hour difference, but for a few minutes outside of real time we were together in cyberspace.

Wafflings

Why do I even try?

Hoping you might change your mind

I cant even say goodbye

I know I gotta get over you.

What can I say?

Hanging on to your every word

I wont sleep again tonight

I know I gotta get over you.

Who holds your heart?

Shadows fill your color-blind art

To next day’s shag, you set your sight

I know I gotta get over you.

Why cant it be us?

Elephants have big ears

Distance vast, emotions dry up fast

(False pretenses, yahoo crashes)

I know I gotta get over you.

September 2002

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