INK! Volume 3 Issue 2 Spring 2014 | Page 39

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But not before I post that I'm crashing,

I am crashing

How will you know behind the pixilated screen you have thrown yourself into

That I'm drowning in my own tears.

But--

Just when I think we have forgotten us, forgotten how we started.

with you sucked in to your video games that control your life and me sucked in to the school work that overwhelms me to the point of breaking down.

Our worlds have become distant.

We are in two different universes.

But then

You break into reality

And it's amazing;

You come home and dance me across the kitchen

and I feel safe in your arms.

You turn my world upside down

It's almost like every game you have played becomes less important than me.

I'm stuck.

I'm stuck in the web of your love

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