Virtuality

This poem was given to me sometime in 2001 from Jerijador. I love all the poems he send me and still keep it till now and perhaps share it with all of you.

VIRTUALITY

Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea

Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantasy

I'm a castaway, stranded in a desolate land

I can see the footprints in the virtual sand

Net boy, net girl

Send your signal around the world

Let your fingers walk and talk

And set you free

Send your signal around the world

Let your fingers walk and talk

And set you free

Net boy, net girl

Send your impulse around the world

Put your message in a modem

And throw it in the Cyber Sea

Astronauts in the weightlessness of pixellated space

Exchange graffiti with a disembodied race

I can save the universe in a grain of sand

I can hold the future in my virtual hand

Like a pair of vagabonds who wave between two passing trains

Or glimpse of a woman's smile through a window in the rain

I can smell her perfume, I can taste her lips

I can feel the voltage from her fingertips