Member Poem

Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:

thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Facebook, Hello Poetry, My Poetic Side
PoetryNook, Poetry Soup, PoetryVibe
Tumblr, et cetera
anonymous global friends,
Romans countrymen/women
whether spring chickens
or old roosters or hens.

A network of cherished kinships allied
forged, and linkedin analogous
to union of groom and bride
(case in point yours truly
linkedin with the missus)
thru electronic bonds engender intrigue,
nonetheless unconditionally accept,
no matter I chide
self, and reference mine existence
as if...this mortal already died,
now more appreciative than ever,
cuz younger days witnessed

peers that did elide
me accompanied with relentless
teasing, snubbing, roasting
akin tubby kindled over a fireside,
thus...solitude shadowed me
as sole silhouette guide
peopled with books
to escape and hide
from so called "real"
webbed world, yet inside
this former grievous
lad through alienation,

emasculation, and isolation no joyride
valuing myself less than a pawn on
chessboard of life
envying extrovert as kingside
station depriving, insulating, and
ostracizing yours truly belied
to Matthew Scott Harris
marginally functioning, and denied
him camaraderie, dating, enjoying
female friendships due
to lack of confidence and pride
and at the cusp of

pubescence...a slow descending ride
(while donning a foghat)
into the hungry (anorexic)
maws of suicide,
which ideations hammer psyche,
analogous to ego getting piston
now aghast how I tried
(without success)
to disappear sundering
mine complex edifice
into the wide

abyss of nothingness, hence to treasure
those electronic connections,
perhaps...totally no more'n four score
(and seven years ago)
all told of unbeknown village people
comprising worthy chums,
sans human league roar
ring (okay pardon the hyperbole),
but letting this foo fighter explore

a greater range of interpersonal
(no matter virtual), but each
unnamed cyber buddy worth more
than simple rhyming galore
words express, some
or all those who sprung
from Earth, wind and fire,
viz cosmic toreador
this poet would their

physical presence adore,
who realizes genuine experienced love
second best option
loneliness I abhor,
nevertheless wistfulness
to communicate
thru the Internet...
finds me writing bonjour,
to random readers

familiar with literary nuances
of yours truly
within whose integrated circuits
central processing unit core
reasonable rhymes coalesce
as trademark décor
lapsing words to explore
his existential crisis
enduring seventeen years

subtracted from fourscore
orbitz athwart planet earth
in the balance as informed
Former Vice President
of the United States Albert Gore
his 1992 tree tease
at that time hardcore
revelations now Greta Thunberg
makes absolutely eloquently sure
Homo sapiens do not ignore.