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.
