Where You Once Lay

Replaced by digital paramours

Where you once lay

Ashes of your devotion now settle

Amongst the mites and dander

That supplant your tender flesh.

Condemned to my presence you fled,

Safe in absence, free and apart.

The hollow of your back, sweet

Heave of your breasts unfilled.

Wine will no longer for you

Salve my annoyance.

The thumps of my surging heart

Won’t addle your dreams.

Quietus will come separately:

Yours in the arms of a novel lover,

Mine unfettered by digital paramours

In the eternity before dawn.

A drift into darkness, the cleft of existence

Tamped down by afflictions

Of heart, of blood, all the hormonal injustice

Allowed to find stasis.

Once, a beeping monitor

Saved me from slumber oblivion

Like your analog concern

Twice rescued me from demise.

And so I lie amongst the circuits

As Dave Bowman in his sterile realm.

Cracks of cosmic relevance left gaping and raw,

Fed and nurtured by a hundred HALs.

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