The Great Digital Silence (2)

I saw a couple at a table

In a candlelit café

They sat for twenty minutes

Not a single word to say

But their fingers flew like sparrows

Over tempered glass and chrome

He laughed out loud at something

She could never see at home

In the great digital silence

We're shouting through a screen

Saying everything in pixels

But you don't know what I mean

Your face is right here in the shadows

Your heart is far from mine

In the great digital silence

We keep crossing that thin line

I watched a father with his daughter

Sharing fries and melting shakes

She drew a dragon on a napkin

He refreshed and checked for breaks

Her eyes kept searching for an answer

To a question she can't say

While a blinking little icon

Led his thoughts so far away

In the great digital silence

We're shouting through a screen

Saying everything in pixels

But you don't know what I mean

Your face is right here in the shadows

Your heart is far from mine

In the great digital silence

We keep crossing that thin line

What if I just put it down

Let it die there in my hand

Look up long enough to notice

You are more than I had planned

Say your name into the quiet

Hear it echo back in kind

Trade a thousand tiny messages

For the courage to speak my mind

In the great digital silence

I'd rather hear you breathe

Every pause and every stumble

Every word you almost leave

Your face is right here in the shadows

Your hand is warm in mine

In the great digital silence

Let our voices be the sign