A circle

A cycle

A circuit

Wake up

Press snooze on your iPhone 6s Plus

8 minutes later

Your right thumb presses snooze again

On the highest volume setting

Instead of looking out your window

About 12 inches away from your bedside

You unlock your phone

with your 6 digit passcode

and open the Weather app

New York, New York

Rain

66 degrees Fahrenheit

11:58 AM

Who needs senses

When you have a phone at the palms of your hands

To discover it all for you

Siri to set a reminder

To remember go to your 3 o’clock meeting

A built-in GPS to tell you directions

How to get to a destination

From your home address

In ETA 51 minutes

It’s the world we live in

Technology at our fingertips

Procrastination:

Binge- Watching Shameless and 13 Reasons Why on Netflix

Or

Creeping on someone’s photos

And comparing them to you

Because we live

In a ‘stalker-society’

We lose track of well-beings

By keeping track of others

Our world is a ‘generational-gap’

Where adults have to remind the younger ones

To remain eye contact

When speaking to others

To turn their phones off

And pay attention during class

Or to learn how to firmly

Shake someone else’s hand

How to speak with confidence

Without saying “umm” or “like”

In between every other word

Our attention is on something else technologic

Where we cannot be fully engaged in the real-world

All because we have to keep up with this imaginary world

Deep in the heart of our cell phones

Because if we don’t like that photo

Or text that friend back

The world will end

We rely less on ourselves

and more on others

or inanimate objects

To live life for us

It’s a cycle

Our day comes to an end

And one wakes up to first touch their phone

Before stretching and waking up

To natural light

Rather than screen light

Imaginary lives

dissolving our senses of time.