Internet Friend
Most people hear the sound of their best friend’s voice daily,
Through the telephone or face to face.
Oh, how I wish I was one of them!
Instead, I’m stuck between a computer, a phone, screen.
Friendships are not based off of the physical closeness.
People will tell you, “Don’t talk to the people on the Internet,
They’ll take you, they’ll hurt you.”
But, oh, how I wish they would.
The people behind a screen can be so nice, so understanding,
When all the world around me is mean.
Friendships are not based on the distance between you.
But one day -- oh, one day, I will break that distance.
One day I will hug them, and comfort them for all the times my words were all I had.
One day I will run in the airport, into the waiting arms of--
My precious Internet friend.