A Long Poem About Cyberspace and the People Who Live There
/by Vicki Acquah
Before, when we were young;
We were together all of us..
Awhile back when you were young,
I was youthfully older-We were
together back then as space and time
had arranged.
As some of us were offended
Never wanted to share the same space
here in cyberspace or on the planet earth;
But still the universe dictated that
We be in motion at the same time
Same Station; Stationed on this plane.
Although we were not headed
in the same direction.
We circled the
Planet,and landed,
On Facebook At
Different times
Different place
Same Space.!
And we waited four hundred
revolutions of the moon.
Now that I know what has happened
To you, I know now where you've been,
And what you've been through.
Tell me again why I should remember?
Tell me something I never knew
about you;
Why do you want me to know?
Cannot imagine -If we had prayed
What could have happened,
If we would have waited to
Get into Paradise, If we
Meet again the old fashion way.
Yes meet by chance..
Maybe my soul would be restless and
Unsure if I'd even make it there
( Heaven ) that is
But this is cool- Better than
A black and white movie
And a T.V. With static.
And then you; You who I never
Knew in the flesh ...
My spirit takes you,
You go with me...
Everywhere I go.
This is the 21st century
My time is not now-
Loyalty and vanity ain't friends
But this cyber Karma is getting expensive.
investing in people that just might disappear
With your love offerings
into thin cyber air- puff !
Liken to a jack legged preacher
Who disappears after a sweet sermon.
Wore your T shirts with pride-
bought your lies and your book.
Held your dreams up with
borrowed clothes pens.
Like Clean sheets blowing in the wind.
We were cyber neighbors
until your status changed
And you mock me now
You glorified traitor- I was warned
People pleasing and pimping.
And now we are no more friends...
Where did you go - cyber heaven,?
This is the 21st century -
My time is not now.
Different world
Different understanding of
How love behaves..
I met you on the ground
Cannot reach you now-
You're living up too high.
In the Cyber Sky -
When you get back to the ground
And make your rounds
It will be too late, the wolves
would have already devoured me
I Confess...I have eaten the
Sour Cyber Grapes.
Your paranoid behavior betrays you
Ah Been peeped ya!
But Your secret is safe with me,
A Cleveland-er... Me
That's Not how we roll...been round
Three sixty, but I am back here with
Those... Who knew my flesh
IN THE SIXTIES... When it was tender.
PEOPLE, Who know how real I am-Know
Respect is due, Due also to those of you
Who followed through in the real world.
AND FOUND ME in cyber ciphers.
Some WE MEET AGAIN-
Some we meet
And here we are
WE that are left over from the same clan
Now; In the same time and place.
But this is Not Heaven --
However - We Are
Together again in
Cyberspace...
SHALL WE MEET AGAIN
After this ?
Like, is there more than mere "Like"
Here.? What No Love button.?
Since this realm is not physical.
Will these messages of love
and letting go, float through
the universal traffic
like a SOS in Morse Code.?
Well it's been nice knowing you
I guess- I think- I mean I Hope -- !
I mean really .. I don't know...
If you know my purpose has business
with your purpose.
Then All this, is on purpose.
Then... Amen.
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