Today's Children
Today's children text on cell phones,
instruments of incalculable knowledge.
And yet, most have never seen a starry sky,
flickering fireflies, pheasants in flight;
or a cocky rooster strut about.
Their reality consists of emojis,
designed to feed social media's insatiable appetite.
Today's children have never seen a cow or a plowed field.
They buy their vegetables, meats, and milk prepackaged
off the shelves of grocery stores, having never been on a farm.
They spend their time surfing the internet,
addicted to their iPhones and computer screens;
soliciting likes from fictitious fickle friends.
Today's children air-kiss and hope to go viral,
for quantity trumps quality when you number your friends.
And even if a few internet friendships are genuine,
they'll unlikely ever meet in the flesh.
Eye contact and handshakes are so blasé,
they've been relegated to the distant past.
Inside alternate realities, today's children live in isolation.
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