Friday, November 3, 2023

Tis a Digital Age

how can i talk of time
at a time like this?
Narcissus, staring 
down the reflection,
not frilled dafodils,
beauty is to bare all,
but confined, controlled,
and cyborg ways,
to the digital void
lost among echoing 
screams or pedestaled-
lifted till the inevitable 
fall from grace, from space,
to perhaps a nostalgic
"Remember when?"
but more likely, alone,
crying to go viral again.

(like me,  love me, this avatar, i made)

mirrors get tossed
the hourglass turns
memories no longer
objects of mind, but
photos to accept, reject,
emotions a status, not season
not cycling that lovely curve 
towards death, to be precious
is to be fleeting, rare. Yet now,
our footprints and life,
presented as permenant, 
not the brief smushed mud
it's always been, now we no grow
wrong step, wrong word,
not the lesson it once was
To cancel a human, how can we?
Humanity, we are the abyss, 
and we will look back on this.

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