CIPHER

mr, mrs and miss communication
language torrent
vocal chord soundstream
dots and dashes
squiggles on a page
pixels on a screen
letters and words
pictograms and hieroglyphs
left to right
right to left
top-down
bottom-up
message in a bottle
bobs gently on the sea
fibre optic pulse
flashes across oceans
thoughts codified
a door to the mind unlocked
cipher applied
decryption attempted
scrambling and code-breaking underway
message open to interpretation
intention wide open to misinterpretation
inherent ambiguity
disambiguation difficult
who is responsible?
who is culpable?
speaker or listener?
writer or reader?
the success of the communication
is the response you get
i show you the moon
but you look only at my finger