Social media poem

Retaliation

I have 2000 friends on Facebook and 3000 on Whatsapp

My friends love me and wait for my Chatsnap

When I don’t send them messages or pictures on social app

They call me to inquire and ask me: what’s up?

I love the new techs as its better than before

When I used to send them letters and hope it will reach the shore

Stale news are boring and sometimes make me snore

But that was how we linked and communicated when we went to explore

And don’t let me tell you about the telephone and how it was so uncanny

It yanked, it cracked and it made noises that where funny

People had to shout to make their voices reach the other side that was sunny

Your throats would be sore and you would need to drink some honey

The third thing we had is a stupid fax machine

The courts accepted it but for the environment it was not so clean

We were amazed by it so we would leave to work in it and go to the canteen

But we could never store the work and the cost was obscene

I would rather have a machine that records my every movement every memory every thought

To tell the news to my family and friends as fast as a shot

I don’t want them to be waiting and for my news to rot

As otherwise I have to chill and hang around more often than not

Life had a rhythm but not like a symphony

Nowadays though life is fast in my ears its better than do ray me

Seeing the old mobile makes me laugh about the company

About the person that holds it and about the irony

They avoid technology thinking it disturbs them

They forgot that it brought us together and stitched us like a hem

Living without technology will leave us at the rim

And will separate our surrounding exactly as a brim

We can do our work and teach the world at once

We can record our sayings, our thinking, and our stunts

We reach out to children on the other side of the fence

We know we do no harm and we will not do an offense

Each one of us races to send the smartest message

To enlighten someone’s day and to shorten the passage

We wait for every like as we are trying to engage

And we smile when someone send us a full page

Social media is not the problem, its how we use it

Like everything else in life we tend to abuse it

We cannot blame it for our loneliness and try to orchestrate,

A mission to dismantle facebook, twitter, linkedin with your inmate

We cannot blame social media for our loneliness and despair

We must find a smarter way and hope to repair

Life is fantastic without thinking “beware”

Don’t go against social media and lets keep it fair and square

Post your films and photos and hope for more likes

I know it gives me the goose pumps and it takes me on various hikes

When someone I knew in time when we used to ride the bikes

Checks my pages , share, like, comments or strikes