This poem was written in 2019 and appears in My Father's Daughter.
Stop all the texts,
remove the mobile phone,
prevent the isolated
spending time alone,
turn off the modem,
cease the internet,
make some memories
you will not forget.
Let Facebook miss you,
let the tweeting stop,
go do your shopping
in an actual shop,
put down the tablet,
put the kindles back,
live dangerously;
read a paperback!
We used to call, to talk,
to just converse,
now it seems
that we find nothing worse.
Talking to voicemail
or to answerphone,
we have our conversations
on our own.
Libraries are not wanted now,
close up every door,
dare we venture to wander
or to just explore?
Losing real connection,
deprived of human touch,
face to face meetings
have become too much.
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