phone connection

Light of my phone -

reaching, grasping

lighting the shadows around me

enough to make out features.

I am still alive on this earth -

though you haven't written, haven't called, haven't posted

in so long.

My heart aches.

This light, my only connection to you.

It lights my surroundings,

but not my heart.

You appear -

a tiny face on a screen,

so far away,

so unreachable.

Even with technology,

morals keep us separated,

except by the light of these

glowing icons upon a screen -

your visage, forever etched into my brain.

The light flickers out,

I must rest, I must sleep, I must forget.

You... always on my mind,

only sometimes on my phone.

Lit,

long gone,

never forgotten,

reappearing, disappearing,

making the light meaningful...

flooding my brain with feeling.