More On Words...

They're powerful.

But are they powerful enough
to hold two people together?

Do people need
physical closeness
to feel connected?
Or will a
dial-up connection do?

Yuuki is in love.
Or at least
I think she is.
She thinks she is.
Mom and Dad
disagree
but what do they know?

His name is Ronnie.
And he lives
over one thousand miles away.

They met on the internet
of all places,
a place teeming with
middle-aged predators
psychotic people
with online personas
because who they are
in real life
isn't enough for them.

But he came along
as authentic
as a real person,
so he had to be one.

And after all the
questions asked
and the
"Really? Me too!"
responses
and all the things they
discussed
debated
pondered
shared
confessed
she realized she had
found somebody
worth finding.

She liked
how he unfolded
before her
like a story
that she couldn't see
the end of yet.
I guess it was
almost suspenseful.
He fascinated her
she fascinated him
They kind of
fell in love
with each other's
brains.

There were too many
similarities
for it to be random
Too many details
for it to be a lie
Too many
smiles
for it to be mere luck

Too many
reasons for him not to
feel the same way
(according to her),
but she told him
how she felt anyway.

And it was
quite a risk to take
because the only thing
that held them together
was
words.

But somehow,
in some way
that I'll never understand
because I'm much
too cynical,
their
relationship
survived
the confession.

And it's weird,
because whenever
I see a couple,
in a photo on Facebook
holding hands in the hall
dressed up for a formal
I turn the ugliest
shade of green.

But when I think about
Ronnie and Yuuki
and the nice things
he says to her
and the way he says
he'll come up to see her
in April
and the long-ass
messages they send
each other,
that waste time
I could be spending
blogging
messaging
scrolling
thinking
responding
observing the
more interesting lives
of Facebook friends
I don't even know,
and the mix CD
she made for him
for Christmas
full of love songs
yet somehow
not awkward
that she sent in the mail
yesterday

It all makes me
happy.
Their words
make me
happy.