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Poetry On Odyssey: Fake Phone Lives We Are Living

The dark truths of todays fake realities.

Kasey Baltz

Jun 20, 2017

College of Charleston

Poetry On Odyssey: Fake Phone Lives We Are Living

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I don’t like the world I’ve created on my phone

On my small screen of life

My world

My sight

My eyes ears feelings and soul

I hate it

I despise it

The world is so huge

Yet feels so small in my palms

Contorts my brain

Makes me feel some sort of unhealthy way

Give me the illusion that I should conquer it all

Until I realize in life you can fall

But the world so large

Extravagant and beautiful

Made

And created

For human

Not technological pollution

Made for us to play and run

Experience and grow

Feel the earth

See the sky

Sun & Snow

At this rate no one will be happy

Empty shells

Due for a cracking

The world is too big and amazing for us to let it go by

Yet we let this world shrink

And we say our final goodbyes

Take away its colors, its life

And shove it all into a putrid device

That crushes emotions

With digital ties

Makes this life of ours seem more like a game every time

Try to level up

And get the most likes

Do the most things, in the smallest amount of time

Find the best love

Find the best car

Find the best house

With the biggest of untouched yards

Have your best life

All locked in a screen

Till it's taken away

A flaw in the machine

Not until you walk outside

Will you realize you're no longer 35

Till death do we part

The screen ripped my life apart.

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