Brick

22/01/19

Life doesn't happen in the group chat.

Old volunteers always say
"things were harder back in my day!"

Here and there I see their point,
but I contest the tool they are quick to annoint
as the gamechanger in the experience
as nothing more than an interference.

Texts, twitter, facetime, and facebook
are all more harmful upon a second look.

Sure they give us life moments
in seconds across continents.

Zoom out for a second or two
and look not at your phone, but at you,
sitting there with a semiconductor brick
3 inches wide, couple centimetres thick,
alone, if not for the mosquitoes biting.
Your brain says otherwise by citing
the chemicals flowing around,
happiness and dopamine abound!

It all exists solely in the mind
through the reward system. We bind
our idea of healthy communication
to a bastion of limitless information
that's devoid of facial expression,
speech intonation,
a warm touch,
and odour radiation.

Communication isn't seeing images and words,
it is the presence of someone & being heard.
The absence of such turns one sick,

locked in a prison made of brick.