When Phones Were Dumb, We Were Smart
Published 7th September.
We used to shout, “Get off the phone!”
The cord was always in the way,
Now people walk into lamp posts blind,
Just scrolling night and day,
We’d stretch the cord around the room,
To whisper, laugh, or plot,
It tethered us, but strangely then,
Somehow our minds were not,
Now freedom means a buzzing glow,
That pings us night and day,
We check it like it rules our lives,
While life just walks away,
We text instead of using mouths,
We voice-note every thought,
Our thumbs get more of us than friends,
Human interaction reduced to nought,
Comments substitute for talks,
The chain wraps around the hand,
We wander rooms of digital haze,
Forgetting where we stand,
When phones were dumb, we all seemed smart,
With space enough to roam,
Now smart phones make us pretty dumb,
We’ve built a cage called home,
So look up now, reclaim your sight,
Don’t let the moments rot,
The cord is gone, but hear the truth,
The cord is free - we are not.
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