Virtual Hug

Today would have been

The flight back home

I found strength in folding your old scarf

You gave me to not feel alone

It's got your fragrance

Sinking softly into my skin

It's bittersweet

The way memories rearrange

Remember you saying

Waves too high

You'd drown in depth

Pulled by every motion

Break against the hard currents

Accross this ocean

Your image buffers lost to the screen

Somehow we're closer now, it seems

Standing by now you can trust daily calls

And daily texts

Between us

I see my reflection

It's you looking back at me

My soul wants to feel your warmth in a breeze

Spark of mind, heart strings pulled, memories tug

All I can do

Is to send you a virtual hug

Your voice

A calm soothing sound

Bleeding through this headset

Looking back I understand the shadows now

Buried mistakes

I tried to forget

Is it healing or am I numb

Your words poetry in every time zone

Sacrificing celebrations

Found love in between dial tones

Your image buffers lost to the screen

Somehow we're closer now, it seems

Standing by now you can trust daily calls

And daily texts

Between us

I see my reflection

It's you looking back at me

My soul wants to feel your warmth in a breeze

Spark of mind, heart strings pulled, memories tug

All I can do

Is to send you a virtual hug

Virtual hug

Ohhh

Through every pixeled kiss

On a frozen screen

Warm hude smiles in the spaces between

Signal hunting through the endless blue

But every frequency leads back to you

I see my reflection

It's you looking back at me

My soul wants to feel your warmth in a breeze

Spark of mind, heart strings pulled, memories tug

All I can do

Is to send you a virtual hug