The Power of Speech

You sit as always-earphones in and eyes glued to a screen, soon you will stand and leave, sometimes you say goodbye, I watch you in your other world to which I do not belong. I go to the freezer and select our tea, to await your return, I make your bed and pick-up your laundry, When it is dark I sit and eat alone. Tomorrow we will repeat this process I think as you sit- lost in a world where you fight aliens on a screen, I go to bed and you do not hear my goodnight. I lay in a bed and hear machines as they bleep- you sit beside me and wait- soon I may leave and you will be alone. You speak to me as I fade in and out of sleep, I hear those words-'nana, please don't leave me alone', I will myself to stay and care for you. I am home now and you look up from your screen and smile, soon you will leave for college and you say goodbye, I go to the freezer and select our tea, I do not feel so alone.