Step Outside

We live our lives inside our phones 
Scrolling endlessly
To fill the gaps in time 

Re-reading rhetoric
To regurgitate later 
To our fellow man 

Who re-read the same 
While scrolling endlessly
Living inside their phone 

What a strange new world
We live here, but we don’t 
We hardly live at all

We experience things only to share them
Get the photo op and be on our way
It’s so sad and so addicting

A hamster wheel of minimal doing
And maximum sharing 
If we could portion off just the good

Just the connection piece
A bit of the convenience piece 
The worldwide knowledge, the helpful piece 

And then break free quickly
To join the world again 
It would be so much better...

T

Dec 2018