Skype time

Skype Time
I am caught in a time warp.
I check my phone as soon as I wake
to check pictures of the babies and little girls
that my siblings are raising.

I am the Elder and I am not on site.

Some days it is a good thing,
as I am too busy to do more
than plod though my course readings
and write my responses.
There is no free time, not yet at least.

So I email them
and ask for Skype time.

My niece says to me: "Pachchi, I love you" in the background
even as her mother talks to me.
She knows that I can hear her
in the distance.

I holler back at her: "I love you too"
Heartstrings, underwater cables, satellites, 3G network:
when heartstrings are synched, it is all good.

Thank you, Steve.