There Was a Time -- There Was a Day

There was a time, my young friend, when you entered a room and greeted other people, helped camaraderie and friendship bloom There was a day, my young friend, when you boarded a train and talked to the passenger next to to you, in conversation sustained There was an era, my young friend, an era of friendly association when folks made time for one another, for mutual affirmation There was such a time, I recall it for sure, now swept away on a tide of digital information ~ See what's become of us, my young friend -- a shadow-people subsisting in stark isolation