Cyberdreams and Other Loves

Cyberdreams and other loves that impact on our lives Like meteoric fragments from dark and starless skies Leave ripples on our souls like pebbles tossed into a pond Swirling eddies of emotion that go dancing on and on. As we watch, they come to us and then again are lost As we wander through our imperfect world adding up the cost Of that which was lost to us before we were born. Yet cyberdreams and other loves are all that some may know So they stumble through their dull, grey lives as on their way they go And the torrent they are caught in from the moment their lives start Pulls them screaming out in terror past the edge of love's rampart To let them plummet toward the stony teeth that life presents to all Where they find their aspirations crushed at the end of that long fall And they at last find life's final ending. But cyberdreams and other loves need not be emotion's end For I know that in this cold, cruel world I will find true love and friends That will hold me up and keep me from that long and tragic fall And help me to resist that sad and lonely siren's call. So I will travel onward 'til at last I make it home To she whose love will bind me and I never more will roam Among the cyberdreams and other loves.