Conversations ~

We generally talk 

through the television:

we speak to it, 

it gives it's story,

and then we hear each other. 

So we have reflected drama

in all our conversations

though 

our tone may well be dead.

Every tv show has a resolution,

so does ours - 

reality as contrived as fiction,

until the next season's run.

Once, a long time back,

I asked him to sit in front of me,

to shut out every device -

book, music, television -

and look at me.

I talked,

waited for his response,

he squirmed,

uncomfortable in my gaze,

desperate for escape.

And then he looked away. 

Ever since,

we have never sat across the other,

we have never talked to each other. 

We have stayed together,

but forever looked the other way.