So…..I was travelling on a train some time ago, the sun was shining on some beautiful countryside vistas. I was looking for a little eye contact, a smile, a sharing of energy and then I realised that everyone, yes EVERYONE, was on a device. I penned this in response…….

 

Looking around

A sea of crowns

Kyphotic spines

Eyes cast down

Look up look up

Look all around

A world existing outside without you

Sit down

Screen out

Tune in

With no doubt

Because it’s not a decision

Its automatic transmission

Subconscious habit

Technology addict

Look up

Look up

Breathe

Ingest

The beautiful landscape

As the train heads west

No no

Got to read

Watch

Listen

Just can’t wait

way to busy with the click bait.

 

Ironic

That this conscious society

Of widening veganism and sobriety

Are quickly unconscious

Lost to the waves

Digital detox

Becomes something for the brave

 

Everything

Quick quick quick

And

Now now now

Fast fast fast

Delayed gratification

An antique from our past

 

How long

Until our song

Is only heard

In cyberspace

The human race,

Quickening pace

Losing face to face

Say goodbye to voices

And conscious choices

And hello to the insular

Singular

Me me me

Don’t kid yourself that you are free

Evolution

Really?

Not as nature intended

Not even nearly

Look up

look up

the deadline will come

where you get to revise

everything you have done

the epitaph

all that you are

if this were a feed

how would this read?

Wake up

Wake up