Remote Relationship

Darkness

All through the house

Everything still all around

The bare dry wood under the peeling paint

Grey in the moonlight

A faint repetitive sound

Coming from an open window

A soft blue glow lighting the room

Softly repetitive

Small breathing sounds accompanying

A firefly zooms closer

Thinking this light to be some strange potential mate

It is not

It is a nude man

Wearing a headset

Looking at a computer screen

Upon which is a nude woman

Also wearing a headset

Both aroused

Both looking intently at the webcam

Speaking words to one another

Descriptive and loving

Then cruel and hard

There is a certain rhythm

It accompanies the words

And their movements

Disinterested

The firefly flies off

In search of a love of his own

Leaving the two lovers

Separated by thousands of miles

Such is modern love