The mute tears we share

without embracing

The masked smiles

we transmit from a distance

calculated by health authorities

each of us looking stunned

from a measured remove

eyes perplexed

anxiety scribbled

across knotted brows

The masked love we relay

across a yawning range

of awkward moments

we cannot memorialise

tormented looks exchanged

across the divide of distance markers

each one of us inhaling

their our own halitosis

pining for human touch.