Hello Text Mate Poem by MELVIN BANGGOLLAY

HELLO TEXT MATE
Melvin Banggollay


Now a days, with the advent of modernity
Anyone can nestle a love with anybody
With the use of many gadgets of today
like cellphone used almost by everybody
in throwing their feelings towards anybody.

Gone are the days when we serenade
With sweet voices and some occulade
of guitar's string humming for a decade
only to capture a woman's heart facade
as we sing love songs of the Cascades.

At first, I don't appreciate using to relay
my feelings using my cellphones fury
but its charm came to me so magically
When one day while I was writing poetry
I stop imagining to answer an inquiry.

' Hello, cn u b txtmate' was the message
' Sure, if you wish' I sent back or relayed
and after a moment, my cellphone vibrate
that made my heart for the first time radiate
eagerness to answer an unknown message.

'Well', I said, 'are you a man or a lovely lady'
I received back, 'I am a woman so sexy,
Arm with an angelic face so enticing to see
and If you want to behold my beauty someday
Reply now, but if you won't, you'll never see.

Out of curiosity, I sent back without protest
My heart's desire so much to see her grace
The serene beauty her enchanting face
For I can't lie from this moment I confess
I have fallen in love with the charm you profess

Hello, Text mate, where ever you will be
Who ever you are, be it beautiful or ugly
The charm of your tender ways that I see
With the words of wisdom you shared to me
beckons my heart to love and long for thee.

I hope and pray we'll meet some other day
That I could tell you how I adore thee,
How I was enchanted by your tender way
Of showing your care and great sympathy
For a simple man like me, a son of poverty.