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| Behind the IP Address |
I know her only through words. Words she strings in sentences that fatten into paragraphs hinting at the woman behind the IP address. She writes about her life, her heartache, her hopes.
I can feel her tears, hear her sighs, see her frowns; none of these have I experienced except through the telepathy of what her words evoke in me, no reality available to affirm this woman, who nevertheless, materializes inside my head. In her phrases, a humility rises, a woman of character, of loyalty, of intelligence. These attributes develop like vapor from words typed on her page. Somehow, I also know if she reads this she will not apply herself to the heroine in this blog.
Going through a challenge of magnitude, betrayed, disillusioned, her youthful dreams slipping through her fingers, she elegantly faces it with a patience which is the definition of adult. The betrayal has brought her to her knees. A sadness weeps alone under the clouds of quiet anger with which she protects her heart. A heart that lies in fragments carelessly tossed aside by an ignorant and selfish husband. A man child who has no clue to the loveliness he has discarded for the sake of his ego.
Her priority, her children conjure a ferocity as she protects them from the imbecility their father casually causes. Watching her through her typed words as she pours her fears into cyber for all of us to see, I see her solitude. I see her loneliness. I see her fear. I see her anger.
I am writing this hoping she will see it. I am hoping she will see herself in it without the benefit of being told it is about her. I am sure she would be embarrassed if I were to confirm it. I wanted to show her what I see in her words. I wanted to show her that someone can clearly see her and just because the love she thought was hers has transformed into a lie, does not mean she is not magnificent.
Through the miles of cyber that this woman and I are separated by, this is the only way I can be a friend.
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Posted by greunie on 2009-06-29 19:00:21 | Rating: | Views: 173
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