I sit, lit by the light of desire,

thoughts burning, full of fire,

passion, excitement,

racing in circles and branches,

all the ‘could be’s and ‘should have been’s

endless branches of thought,

the universes cascading away in my mind

while I create them,

hoping to find

the right one,

the one where we’re together,

where I made all the right choices,

where you are next to me

but it could be..

maybe one day,

maybe soon,

it will be a reality

I guess I’ll wait and see.

But the waiting burns,

Dying thoughts give light,

Lighting my night

Like this pale blue screen,

pouring my emotions,

thoughts, dreams,

endlessly flowing into these keys

it never asks why, never says please

and yet this screen, the words it shows,

they can bring me to my knees.

Years of love, happiness, pain,

recorded forever, floating in the dark,

every emotion of every person

who ever dared to do it

to give themselves up to the screen

to let their soul out into the machine, if only for a moment

to make their voice heard,

or share their pain

just to get through it

this burning blue light,

The only light of the night,

Is the glow of today’s humanity.