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A World That's Not Real

can I turn off my computer

shut down my phone

turn off the lights

and open the blinds?

No

Because I look outside
and I see everyone pass by

Looking at their phones
Smiling at a text
Ending a phone call
Playing a game as they wait for a bus

And I think to myself

I wonder if there’s a message
Waiting for me
But I missed it when I turned off my phone

I wonder if
Someone is trying to call me
I wonder if you miss me yet
and reached out to say hello

I wonder if I jumped the gun

Maybe the break from that world
The one that strains my eyes
Till I can’t see without 
Five hundred dollar glasses

The one that numbs my brain
and I can’t write without
Missing that red line to help me
Spell the words I want to speak

It was all too soon
But will it ever not be?

I look out my window
and I see the world
For what it’s become

I see how people have changed

How they depend on a device
So small
So delicate

So important

I close the blinds
I go back to where
I put it away

I turn on my computer
and wait for my phone to
Let me in

But nothing is there
No one is there

They are all too busy
In a world that’s not
Real

absenceaddictionlonelyperspectiveworldfree verse

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Bernardo F. Asuncion

November 6, 2016 at 10:02 PM

They are all too busy In a world that’s not Real.. Personalized conversations are nearly abandoned....... Congrats for being featured....

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October 27, 2016 at 10:40 AM

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