poetry project #4: mute

i sit here late at night
moment after moment refreshing my mind
screen of a thousand pixels
lets me peer into others lives
alone i sit abandoned
wondering who shares my pain
i find thoughts and dreams
of holding someone close
are what makes me thrive

yet alone in conversation
i peer into others thoughts
to find minds that think alike
but distant by communication
used, tattered, and emotionally distressed
what we sought in our own shattered disillusions
we sought from salvation in text

finding nothing but heartache and turmoil before us
we know nothing of each other
words to a screen are unspoken
faded and slightly jaded
yet mute to each others pain