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You type faster than you talk

Leave half a thought, then disappear

I say things I wouldn’t carry

Past a door or into here

Your jokes land a second late

Like they came from somewhere else

I answer calm, I answer kind

Nothing like I sell myself

We meet inside a different pace

Your silence takes up more than mine

I wait for cues that never load

Like something failed to sync in time

You smile like you’re playing safe

I talk like I already ran

We don’t collide, we don’t connect

We pass like badly timed hands

You sound taller through the screen

Like the room bends where you stand

I picture someone easier

Than you probably are in fact

You sound closer when you leave

Than when you say you’ll stay

It works better in delay

It works better this way

I like you better unfinished

Buffering, half aware

There’s less to lose in waiting

Than finding out who’s there

I say “we should meet sometime”

Like it’s not already late

I mean it as a placeholder

Not a plan I can translate

You sound taller through the screen

Like the room bends where you stand

I picture someone easier

Than you probably are in fact

You sound closer when you leave

Than when you say you’ll stay

It works better in delay

But I still want it the other way