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