halfway ‘round the world
as you open your phone
to greet the day
on the poetry app
with thousands of friends
my words that were written
just moments ago
before I turned in for the night
enter your waking heart
and there’s a
thread spun
by my heart
to your heart
drawn tight
as you read
the poem
the thread is
plucked by our
shared experience
in this spinning world of ours
as you recognize
yourself in these
sparse
words
and in the resonance
you feel
the rawness
the humanity
the vulnerability
and also
somewhere
in the mix
in this short verse…
the hope
who knew
we could be
a world apart
yet side by side
together
through words
