“So nice chatting to you!”
“Speak soon, yeah?”
“Cheers! xxxx”
Click
Message sent
Another conversation
Conducted through a screen
Sometimes it’s two people
Sometimes it’s ten
All constructing their speech as typed characters
Sharing their lives with an electronic world
So many people
Pouring their thoughts
Their minds
Their souls
Directly into a digital space
Laying themselves bare for an audience on the internet
Anyone can witness and judge
Intimacy is gone
Notoriety remains
How did humanity come to this?
A friendly hug
The joyous sound of laughter
The connection of gazing into another’s eyes
This is how we used to live
Where are we now?
We’ve forgotten what reality looks like
Everything and everyone has a filter
We are relentless in the pursuit of our digital dreams
Personality matters nought
Image matters all
Looking good and feeling good
They’re more important than doing good and being good
Communication
Morals
Compassion
Friendship
They’ve eroded away
Condensed into a stream of emojis and symbols
Social media?
Anti-social lives
About the Creator
Luke Mayo
Poetry fan. Soul searcher. Volunteer extraordinaire. Electropop enthusiast. Consumer of dairy milk and cherry coke.
Create Your Personal Vocal Homepage
I'm not a Vocal Newbie (not that there's anything wrong with that), and I'm technologically comfortable. But, I'm also perhaps too comfortable. I think I know, even if I know that I don't know what I don't know, I still think I know more that I do know.
By Judey Kalchik 4 days ago in Writers
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