Deepayan Banik
Systems Modeler · University of Toronto
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Communicator

I. Friend o' mine

It's long since a beautiful conversation has brightened up our day

Just after the odd hour of the afternoon

When the bustling surrounding is in temporary repose

When our worlds are in line with one another

I hear the device beep

Time passes as if in sleep

Simple yet sophisticated is the tone

Of projects and discoveries

Of mundane miseries, you know them all

We steal hasty glances

Should we invite chances, of suspicion

Who knew, our peace resided in a soul

Lightyears apart

I don't know if we look alike,

But our voices are the same, and also our name

Your ideas and thoughts are different though

That's how it is supposed to be

In fiction

With you, conversation has now become an addiction, almost like talking to my own self

But, how long

Before one finds out in due time

This secret of ours

II. Once they come to know the mystery

They'll say

Worlds are not meant to work this way

Interaction hinders normal function

Oblivious to

The tranquility and comfort of a synergy

For the soul is split

Into countless fragments

One yours, one mine, and the others

In worlds misaligned at this odd hour

They won't be wrong,

We all know how much the second law likes chaos

A murderer of peace, of calm

The king of anarchy

Yet for our own good, we'll go on

Careful and cautious

And should they come to know

We'll say how infinity outweighs any finite

Two in our case, in our defence

The rest is up to them

Here they had been doubting me for days

It's truly long since they destroyed the 'Communicator'

Not knowing what it really was

But if you remember a bit of what existed

An invention that was both ours

It could not have gone in vain

As now we are united

And we converse, but with our own selves.