Connect

Some words on a screen
It is she. It is he. It is we. It is me.
Click the button and connect
Emoticons to conquer, to lick
The very boundaries that calmed us here

Tumbling, exalting, talking

Evolution, a suggestion
A phone call, progression
Voices, sighs, chirps, snorts
Hearing billowing a want for more, for more
Emoticons are visual, not aural, expressions

Fumbling, exalting, talking

Bravery, a proposal to meet
Agreed, the whole package to greet
Once a bud, in person, is in full bloom
But--are we the we that we were in the room
That found intimacy and safety in IM speech

Crumbling, halting, balking

From shell to screen to phone to meeting--home to school to work to fun
Which is he? Which is she? Which is we? Which is me?

~June 2003, RMKS