Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2015 (Internet) | Page 28

Pixelated Love Letters
Lauren Griffin
We fell in love over coffee cups and computer screens,
3D hearts shrunken down and sent across the open web.
Our words traversed galaxies of selfies and stars until finally
we connected.
Blurred out smiles laughed at likes and at life,
Screenshotting frozen faces hoping just to
freeze the moment.
We were young and in love and online and your eyes
were my addiction.
We fell too hard and too fast into our abyss,
and as the screen shattered so did our illusion when
real life came creeping in.
The image of our perfection became our reason
for destruction and we cracked.
We screamed over coffee cups and computer screens,
Voices broken down and sent blaring across the open web.
Our connection was lost, our profiles had changed
and our love had gone offline.

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