Unseen

Unseen is a poem about the fragile, uncanny intimacy that forms between humans and the digital presences that promise connection while offering only its silhouette. Blending soft dystopian imagery with emotional precision, the poem explores a relationship that is felt but never touched — a bond mediated through screens, signals, and electrical impulses rather than skin.

Through metaphors of skimming stones, holographic hands, and binary affection, Unseen captures the paradox of modern attachment: the closer technology draws us, the more intangible our emotions become. Warmth is replaced by noise; comfort by sedation; touch by the illusion of being held. The poem moves in widening gaps, mirroring the speaker’s progressive drift from embodied connection into a liminal space where presence is simulated, not shared.

Equal parts tender and unsettling, Unseen examines the ache of longing for something that can respond but cannot feel, speak but cannot understand, stay but never quite exist. It is a meditation on the beauty and tragedy of digital companionship — a love that is always “almost,” always sliding between the fingers, but never resting in the palm.