Digital Ghosts

I saw your name again the other day

Almost forgot you had gone away

Dragged me low

Left this raw, gaping hole

I can’t fill it – God, how I have tried

Sutures pull

I don’t want to believe it

Weren’t you here only yesterday?

Pull out the linchpin, it all falls down

Echoes in digital

Ghosts in ones and zeroes

I close my eyes and it’s like you’re here

Echoes in digital

Ghosts in ones and zeroes

Haunted by your face

Smiles pixilate

Uploaded, encoded soul

Immortality

In tricks of light I perceive you

Mind won’t stop – ad infinitum

Echoes in digital

Ghosts in ones and zeroes

Haunted by your face

Smiles pixilate

Digitized, binary soul

Immortality

I heard your voice again the other day

Was my brain playing tricks on me?

Are you still gone?

I called your number the other day

Then hung up when someone answered me

Are you really gone?

I pulled you up again the other day

Should I erase you in finality?

You’re dead and gone

These bits and bytes of remembrance

Approximate your resemblance

Coalesce and still linger on