The Emojis Speak

Splash of New Year in the e-mail, the marriage invitation on WhatsApp, bursting balloons by the memes, and lighting candles on the birthday celebration. Grandparents collect "thumbs-up" signs. It looks like everything functions in the virtual world, until the sudden flash of an RIP.
 
dewdrops
all that I miss
with time

Contemporary Haibun Online, 17.2. 2021 (Ed. Rich Youmans)

                     

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