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
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