words that are but sound waves, nothing
but electrons in space travelling between us
and yet we understand and we pretend
that it is really our talking as if we
were together in the same space
then suddenly, silence is all we hear,
filled at first with a small piece of nothing as
I search my thoughts for what next,
finding only folly in any attempt to anticipate
that to come in the next part of now
my heart beats faster as I begin to hear
the beating of your heart near to mine, faint
at first, and feel myself lost from where
I was, now hurled through space to
beside you to look into your eyes
I smile one of those funny smiles of
quiet knowing in our minds and mind
and you smile back, across the miles, yet here
as I am there and as we leave electrons
and sound waves behind us
what could there be left to say now
with voices and sound and some miracle
of technology that cannot better be
said with the silent whispering of my soul to yours
as I look into your eyes across the miles