Hello Yourself!

It's just the way things are; ease your
conscience you cannot be a source of
solace to all those lost souls seeking
validation of their very existence. There
is rapport or there is none. This  you tell
yourself as you gather your inner resources 
to cease communication when the time 
just seems right to be unresponsive with 
good cause. Online connections are a 
diversion an adjunct to a real life lived in
the here and now with direct interpersonal 
contact or ... not. The endless search by the 
emotionally vulnerable for human contact 
is a reality of life. That said among others 
the need is a cruder compulsion to haunt
to derive pleasure from imposing on others
to find a medium of control or a method
to exploit in that great free-for-all that is 
the Internet welcoming social misfits
deviants, those with a pressing political 
cause the ideologists looking for a home 
for their thoughts and mindful of the search
and you are one. That simple personal
note of 'Hello' invites response which
the incautious curious repeat only to find
a probing conversation best avoided in
its assumptions yet occasionally despite
intentions otherwise a familiarity develops
of ease and casual intent of friendship
denoting that elusive element of instant
recognition of comradeship in that alter
life that is life yet not quite an inner life.
Ideologues, egotists, stalkers begone.