THE PRICE OF CYBER LOVE

He eagerly types away
hands flying across the keyboard
as if he were typing the world's greatest novel
instead of perversion to his cyber girlfriends
Wild eyes glued to the screen,

an excitement his wife and kids cannot give
he looks at the crude pictures that he longs for
making sure that his screen stays well hidden
so his wife will not see what he is doing,
and he can carry on his deceitful way


Reality has blended
with the surrealistic world of Cyberspace
The man who once loved his wife and kids
now ignores everything, spends his time
planning and scheming to continue his online trend,
over and over loving his cyber girlfriends again
they are the most precious in his eyes


He ignores everything
His wife, his kids, his family
To him, Computer Land is real and the most important,
not just a fantasy
and so is his cyber girlfriends, they bring him the joy his wife and kids can’t
and their little cyber world is all that matters, not the living in reality

 Hello, is there life out there
Is anyone listening
The world seems to be draped
in the deathly chill of silence
Like a high tech shroud
No sound is heard
except for the clicks of the computer mouse
as he looks for deplorable images all around
Forgetting about his family, he ignores their crying sounds

The roof is leaking
Water drips onto the floor
and splashes from their eyes
the young eyes that see their father
looking at a picture they do not understand
Of a woman objectified who is not his wife
For the wife stares into space now
Her husband she thought she knew is gone, he was never really known
but yet there
always there
always on the computer, typing right along
And nothing matters to him anymore

Maybe if by some horrible fate
the computer would break down
and he would be in the real world once again
Would he realize what he has done
or would he make excuses just like he’s done before

Would he be too blind to notice
the tears around him on the floor
cried by his children
for their mother who died
from taking one to many sleeping pills
because she could not take it anymore, her heart broke from all the lies

 Is his mind too far gone, to see the loss
To see the high price it will cost
to see the nightmare he has created
to see his family that he has destroyed
All for a "fun" time on the computer.....

Choosing cyber space over his family that he claimed to adore

A life he will have no more