that's what it was

it was the words after all, enough of them
occurring together
in a statistically significant way

i did write
and there are algorithms

for sensible enough
within a degree of certainty
for a response

it's not the words
it's their frequency

i wrote hope many times
and wishing
and perhaps
and may

i wrote you a lot

and me not much
and love only later
when the notes were shorter
and maybe only ten times

a weak correlation

that's what it was