Diaphanous

Surreal mood kicked in

while sipping a cup of tea

a pure spring moment waves its gentle motion

inside, shaking mental blockage

to curve out the fatty reluctance

letters asked me to put them inside a screened canvas

where it can form

my avatar

in front of the world,

portraying my strengths and weakness

into a digital human form,

I said, ‘Huh, so you wanna articulate me through you,

poor you, Google and Facebook already had done it.”

You see, our connectedness in the digital key-strokes

our interactions, our affections, likings, conversations

already transformed us into diaphanous form,

us, defined in see-through fineness of digital delicacy

into 0s and 1s of binary bits

our true soul somehow caged within our physical embodiment.

[Initially published in Medium]