A Seduction Of The Digital Age

Blue ticks & rapid clicks,

What are you running away from?

Likes and shares, is this a society you want to fix?

Hear the servers running, the incessant thrum;

Repost this & retweet that,

What are you waiting for? Upload that cute little cat!

Time and again you stop and stare,

Not enjoying with your eyes but wishing your camera was there;

Take it all in. Memorise it. Lest you forget to add it to your blog,

In this society, to connect you must be online and not in touch,

Denial of reality, of nature itself! Do not be seduced by this social smog,

See all that you do, sacrifice of privacy: Our social networking needs are such!

Instagram/Snapchat filters and new emoji,

Update your software, God forbid, you lose your anonymity;

Remember when ice cream sandwiches were fed to mountain lions?

Now even soft drinks are healthy: They have electrolytes & ions!

Upload your life on a cloud,

Make it rain to revisit your history,

The number of friends you have, you must be very proud!

Feel clever, this generation swears by sophistry;

Snap every memory,

Augment every reverie,

This is your life, do more than digitise,

Live a little: Privatise.