Lara Wash Poet Didactic

A Technology Fast

Turn if off!
I told myself

Are you behaving like an addict?
Do you have to read your emails, look on Facebook, tweet a few lines,
Play a game or two and while at work your lunchtime and breaks are
Filled with personal calls and surfing the web

Robots we are not
We are emotional intelligent beings living in a world that have diminished 
Our attention with others to a text

Sure all of technology is a tool for making things more efficient
But are we so self sufficient that we miss the human element
By becoming deficient?

I see shoppers pass by others and never speak because they are engrossed 
In conversations on their cell phones and bump into objects and fall into potholes because their attention is focused on cyberspace

Because of God’s grace 
They weren’t hurt 
But they certainly didn’t save face

I’ve learned to take a technology fast
At a certain time my cell phone and computers are off
And my television too  
So that my personal interaction with others isn’t devalued

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