And as you blink, your body flickers before me.
Each flutter of the eyelid sends electrical
Shivers
Rippling along
Your skin.
Your eyes are steely grey lenses that glare
At me,
Without seeing me.
But I can see you, or rather, my vision penetrates
Through you, as your pallid complexion fades
To a translucent
Glow,
And your blank face clouds over with something like boredom.
I notice that your ethereal eyes become distracted, damaged, hollow.
Your holographic skin loses its shimmer, grows
Cold and dull,
The life drains out of every virtual atom…
A sudden dizziness overwhelms me.
A strangled scream escapes my soul and
E c h o e s
Through
The
Void
I lunge forward, grasping for you, but you slip
Through my fingers as they pierce your frail flesh.
As my hands move frantically, your body dissipates
Into dense white swirls,
Which hiss as they curl
And drift
Away with the breeze
Tears roll down my cheek as I consider the strength of the hallucination –
You were never mine and never will be.
By Gianina Dwek
England, UK
You can find more poetry on my blog: www.iambakerg.wordpress.com