IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD <br /> <br />In the virtual world <br />I somehow am real- <br />I add to myself all the time <br />Without problem. <br /> <br />In the real world <br />I am less successful. <br />Less attention is paid <br />And I walk the streets of my own city <br />Unrecognized. <br /> <br />Praise is nice <br />And virtual praise also something I suppose <br />But a real embrace is something different. <br /> <br />One day soon too perhaps, you say, <br />Virtual embraces will be more than real ones <br />But it hasn't happened yet. <br /> <br />As it is now I am more real in the virtual world <br />Than in the real one. <br /> <br />No wonder I spend so much of my time here <br />Writing to strangers who have never smiled at me <br />And who I too am not really in touch with.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-virtual-world/
