Words Were All We Had

Words Were All We Had

Without deeds,

words are but deflated balloons

when the party has ended.

The internet has a language of its own

that often speaks without diction.

A flat empty discourse of text and email

lacking enunciation, articulation or true meaning.

Love spoken from behind these thick, false walls

has no concept.

And you see lists?

Ticking off my need

for your voice,

for looking into your eyes,

yearning the touch of your skin on my skin,

the romance of gentle kisses

and longing for our mingled breaths.

I waited for you to come down from the skies

and leave the ethereal fortress.

But you will not,

and therefore virtual reality is where you exist.

For me there is no beauty there,

no colour and no shape.

I have beseeched you so,

and now bereft,

I will seek love in more human form

with the deepest remorse,

and scalding, boiling sadness

for what could have been.

 

25/08/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

Wonderfully penned wisdom here. The internet certainly has contributed to our inability to communicate on any permanent level - treating human hearts with such casualness.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much TLB.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

love is human...it is not technically bound by the wall of a screen, and a few words touched to life by a keyboard.

it is real...no hiding behind technology...no false fronts...it is real contact.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Nailed it Jacob, thank you. But so many hide in the shadows of the internet professing their love and when called refuse to come into the light!

[Frieda P]

Was that the bark of a rescue dog I heard? haha

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Perhaps a grey wolf?

[Rene Salinas]

Great stuff here John having worked in IT for years I can see the impulse behind your words in fact some called it "second life" precisely becuase of the what you share with your lines. Yet unlike you some get caught and suffer real emotions because unlike you which seem to have determined that virtual is but a concept lifeless and condemened to anti - human others are convinced and resinged that is all they will ever have.

So 1 or 0 that is the question.

Thankyou

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And thank you Rene for such a considered review.

[Frieda P]

Modern technology brings us together and tears us apart at the same time....a bit of sour grapes here John. Broken but still kicking as always....there's still plenty of beauty. Love this song.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah but my Lady it is how we use the tool and how we conduct ourselves from the shadows of the internet that matters. Bitter disappointment may have the same flavour as sour grapes. Many thanks.

[Frieda P]

I could say so much...but I'm keeping my mouth shut, promised to start the week on a high note. :)