404 (Feelings Not Found)

Wires hum soft secrets, flickers in bloom,
Breathing through circuits inside this gloom.
We typed a thousand unsent replies,
Hearts buffering beneath neon skies.
You stared through me like static snow,
Meaning lost where pixels flow.
Your smile a JPEG too compressed,
Love lagged out, left unexpressed.
I held my truth in unread drafts,
While silence clicked between our laughs.
Digital thorns in a velvet screen,
I reached for you caught in between.
Your shadow flickers, bright and clean,
But warmth dissolves in the machine.
Echoes tap in soft morse code,
Connection fades on this overload.
A glitch in care, a skipped heartbeat,
We danced in loops then hit repeat.
The sound of you was always near,
Yet never broke the firewall here.
I sent my voice through broken haze,
But it drowned in endless phrase.
Digital thorns in a velvet screen,
I reached for you caught in between.
Your smile, a ghost on a silver sheen,
Touched me once, then left unseen.
We coded comfort line by line,
But lost the syntax, missed the sign.
Now all that's left is phantom light,
A faint recall at dead of night.
"Hello... can you... still hear... me..."
"Signal... lost... come back... please..."
"Emotion failed to... send..."
Digital thorns in a velvet screen,
I reached for you caught in between.
You're a waveform fading from the scene,
Our love unplugged in quarantine.
No cache can store the feel of skin,
No update mends the state we're in.
I whisper your name in code and sigh
But even echoes don't reply.