Green Dot


Reading mails, I face the computer screen
Again, the gray dot beside your name turns

Green as mine is. Available, our dots say
How can that be when you and I are both

Shackled to commitments in isolated worlds?
A high fence between: hindrance to treason

I could click the mouse and knock on your virtual
Door. You will surely open; we will chat endless

But it does not release either you or me; We
Are like prisoners talking through iron bars

Sharing fantasies that elude us in the real world
So proximate and yet so remote from each other

In pain, I watch as a gray dot evicts the green
Temptation departing with graceful, quiet footfalls./chyt2007

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