Virtually Ignored
I am engaged in a virtual battle
with women I never see.
Enticed, Seduced
Snap-chatted
Induced.
I saw that Share.
They’re everywhere
In multi-platform pursuit.
Contact, painless.
Conduct, shameless
A snap, a click,
And now some chick
has shown you all of her.
Unrequested. Yes.
But you keep it.
So tell me, where’s the line?
How can I defend a border
No one can define?
From inconsistent to
Intermittent …
then to not at all
You flickered, then faded.
Now you’ve made it
Your business to be
Anywhere but here.
Love … babies,
Tomorrows … maybes
Just what I wanted to hear
Love … Babies
Tomorrow, No maybes
Anything to keep you near.
I handled my business
Or so I thought
You took my love
… And the things I bought.
Caught, an onslaught
The Thots,
Nonstop.
A dabble here
A message there
It was, you said, just fun.
People out there do that.
But then there was that one.
Caught up in the winds of your wants
Carried off by the parts she flaunts
This woman who once blew by blew in
Now I’m on my own again
Love … babies
Tomorrow … maybes, Me?
One of many verses, I found
Love … babies
Tomorrow … maybes
You sang that chorus all over town.
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I would like to just let it go.
You know,
Walk off and call it a day.
But we have so many in common,
I’m electronically haunted
Moving on is
A luxury I haven’t got.
I see you, hear you, know who you talk to
Whether I want to or not.
Your trail consumes me.
It’s hard to resume me.
I await every installment
Without involvement
Imagination, untethered.
I weather
A storm of disregard.
I never knew the wind could blow
So bitter and so hard.
With one click I work the hurt.
Stuck in a mire of maybe.
A friend of a friend
on Instagram
says she is having your baby.
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There are so many ways you don’t reach for me.
I am
Ignored, defeated.
Not shared.
Deleted.
So I watch the show, you know
That episodic, with the sorrowed theme song
Staring you and whoever’s new
Entitled “I’ve moved on.”