Crossroads for lost souls, all searching
For we know not what
Yearning to bridge a void
Looking to drink deep
Water for the desert of the soul

Chance met in Babylon, slim foundation of
Fortuitous words link slender chains across
Precarious attachment, we briefly touch
Fingers through metaphors, bandying
Loose words, not all miss their mark

Arrows blindly loosed at
Guessed targets, chance reached
Talk we need, none we can say
All things important sit still and accusing
Cast into quite darkness, quiescent brooding
With quite cold eyes

Hands dance smiling words
All is well, meaning scribbled effortlessly
Across chasms of life
My keyboard sits still, all linkage lost
Time to wonder

Words, letter by letter
Have speed through the night
There import guessed at by the sender

They seek you, knowing what I know not
Binary code, vastly clever in their simplicity
Able to find you in the darkness

Finding you, my delegated messenger
Wormed through the labyrinthine interstices
Of a world spanning electron empire

Carried on waves of meaning, targeted blind
Opening gateways I cannot enter
Looking out upon your world with blind eyes

Mapped letters creating dumb words look upon
Your face, reflecting back
Showing none of the rapturous meaning
Embedded behind crystal faces

Battle worn, weary stoop staggering towards
Repeated mistakes litter the landscape
Corpses heaped, each telling misstep coruscating
Across the plain of thought

Upon our back, memories of life
Inform our every staggering move
Hampered import lost in translation
All words coloured by the endless conflict
Of a divided soul