First love was 4G, etch-a-sketch, Italian grade authenticity
Was classic emoticons and character limits,
Was a feverish flitting of fingers on keyboards, flirting clicks and fluttering risks,
Was teenage girl toe curling over bolded smirks and grins between asterisks,
Was swiping right to hear his “I missed you” soft in San Serif and introvert blue,
Was role playing between the lines and occasional threesomes with tech support,
Was a love for literature and sending hand-picked poetry like warm, waking breakfast in bed,
Was shared bucket lists and parallel, midnight radio raves,
Was new age fluency sampled with old-fashioned friends to lovers,
Was a 2 hour and 2 years ahead, 12 a.m. birthday stay up adolescence,
Was falling into companied slumber cradling a “sleep well” today, 2:00 am.
Was a secret with a hidden album and six digit passcode,
Was profoundly more than just the sequence of bits to pixels projected on tempered glass.