If I am a Video Game Character

The nights I can't sleep,

are you awake?

Long afternoons

where the sun tilts through my window

but I can't make the shadows move

out of bed,

are you there

watching me buffer?

Or maybe you're at work

like when I neglect my Animal Crossing village for too long

and weeds populate between

all the yellow cosmos I grew

last spring...

is there work where you are?

Or maybe you're busy with

living,

high-flying through a

sky full of escapades,

of love,

of adventure.

If that's the case,

I forgive you for

forgetting me,

the extension of yourself,

the video game character in the game

marketed as Life.

If the possibilities out there

are as infinite as in here,

I don't blame you one bit.