Love from abroad

A poem about what its like to be alone in a foreign city, and finding love online

The distance between you and I

Incomprehensible

yet only a keystroke away

You listen to me across oceans

You listen to me across graying skies

And yet others call us strangers

Our hearts beat together

As one.  

 

Years of solitude,

I found you on a machine

I saw your faces

Pixels in shades green, red,

and a sorrow too deep to describe  

We talk in coded sentences

Our language crafted

Together.

 

My brilliance shines

Unrecognized to everyone but you

I sit in silence, in an apt for two

Alone for what felt an eternity

And waited for you to come to me

 

I tried to go out- and meet new people

But they laughed and cursed and lived,

As if it were that easy, to wake up

Surrounded by strangers

In a city so foreign and odd

The street signs read better upside down

 

The curse of many tongues

And a world that is teeming with people

 

I miss you my love,

I’ll send you a postcard

And wish I could travel with it

To more foreign lands,

And we’d discover them

Together. 

Author's Note

Please be sensitive as this is literally my 2nd poem

Reviews

[jayanth]

beautifully written :) Such love, such pain is emoted brilliantly through your words :) Great job.

Cheers.

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My self I experienced same situations. You brought real experience of pain and desire and longing . Into honest creation above it . It have it nice flow . I hope you wish will come true very soon. Outsider.

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Though oceans apart, two people can still connect as long as they're on the same wavelength. This poem proves it.

Have a nice day.