To all my friends

OnMyWeigh464

I don't know if I've posted this poem here before or not so I'll share it now. I think about when I first came to MFP to simply keep a food diary. Then I started venturing into the forums. I was just a lurker, scared to join in because some threads had pages upon pages of replies and I figured my post would just get lost in the shuffle. Then I figured what the heck. And now I have a friends list and chat with some of them on an almost daily basis :-). Anyway...I did not write this poem. I simply found it on another forum-type board I use to be a member of. I've just always kept it on my computer hard drive.


We sit and we type, and we stare at our screens

We all have to wonder, what this possibly means.



With our mouse we roam, through the rooms in a maze

Looking for something or someone, as we with in a daze.



We chat with each other, we type all our woes

Small groups we do form, and gang up on our foes.



We wait for somebody, to type out our name.

We want recognition, but it is always the same.



We give kisses and hugs, and sometimes flirt.

In PM's we chat deeply, and reveal why we hurt.



We do form friendships - but - how, we don't know

But some of these friendships, will flourish and grow.



Why is it on screen that we can be so bold

Telling our secrets, that have never been told.



Why is it we share the thought in our mind

With those we can't see, as though we were blind.



The answer is simple, it is as clear as a bell.

We all have our problems, and need someone to tell.





We can't tell real people, but tell someone we must,

So we turn to the 'puter, and to those we can trust.



Even though it is crazy, the truth still remains

They are Friends Without Faces, and odd little names.

~~author unknown~~

Patty_Petz

What a great poem! Thanks so much for sharing!!