In aarhus via sweet Skype

 In Aarhus via sweet Skype

Through the Skype sweet,

Family talks to a son in

Aarhus, Denmark;

A daily fix,

The distances crumble

In an instant,

We see each other,

Smile and wave,

And exchange tidbits:

Weather,

Prices,

Cuisines,

Rains, fog,

Dormitories,

Bonding rare, among students

From Africa, Asia, China and Europe

The camera rolls and pans,

And captures the everyday

Domestic scenes

Unfolding in a small room,

With vast circulating global dreams;

The images are great and gritty

And realistic,

We see

Feel the love transmitted,

Through the sweet Skype,

The medium that brings the

Separated kin together

And re-unites momentarily---for re-separation;

The images comfort

The exiled,

The way picture postcards do,

As we glance greedily

 At snapshots,

Of skyline,

Courtyards,

Cafeteria,

Taken at Copenhagen,

Aarhus,

Or,

Paris,

But they lack intimacy,

Immediacy,

Fulfillment,

Of real-time encounters,

As we,

Still cannot

Visit persons,

Places,

Events,

Physically;

The painful

Yearnings,

Remembrances,

Still

Unresolved and unaddressed.