Power of the Phone

Our lives we no longer own

So afraid we are of being alone

We have offered our minds to “APPLE” on loan

Whether we be young or fully grown

We are being silently trained to become a drone

Believing we are smarter with our clever smart phone

We have lost our interest in conversation to hone

Losing connection with ourselves, Tom Betty and Joan

More interesting and less scary is setting a new ring tone

The problems we used to resolve in person, education, healthcare,

the diminishing ozone.

Now, we turn to our devices and on social media we type out a moan.

This is no longer a small problem, it has become an issue full blown.

We no longer talk out our problems face to face-we do it using a headphone.

Our emotions are confused, we may feel something deeply and yet we type monotone.

Instead of using our voices, we implement an angry emoji rather than bemoan.

We are losing our practice of interfacing face to face.

We are in the process of losing a societal backbone.

The future requires us to participate in person, or we will be overthrown.

There is much we need to participate in and navigate together the unknown.

We need the young, the old, and the nearly grown!

Our future is unfolding, let not our human involvement postpone.