Heaven forfend.

Heaven forfend.

The world is close enough

But too far away

To touch without reaching out

To risk a brush with

The other side

Of the divide

Is more than

A matter of debate

Laptop barricade

Line of demarcation

Mixed media

Anti-social irony

In high definition

Defence is the

First line of attack

It might be safer

If a moat was filled

With fresh water

It would be pretty

Filled with Koi carp

Perhaps a drawbridge

Could be configured

Lifted or lowered

How would you know

Which way to go

The canyon

May grow wider

As it splits the dusty

Dry earth

A chasm

Of seismic proportions

Lay a ladder down as

A makeshift bridge

Beware of snakes

Board games

Are bloodless battlefields

Table top mountains

There is no meaning in

Scrabble

But it takes time

To formulate

A sentence

Without context

Every word is counted

When contact

So finely felt

Is a held breath away

From avoidance

There is little scope

In games of chance

When fear of loss

Overwhelms social exchange

It suffocates the purpose

Of surprise.