DISCONNECTION

 

 

This new world, with old maladies, and the new ways of expressing them

Connected virtually and disconnected  really

Speaking through machines to machines!

What is in this conversation

we are having 24/7

Always ready, always connected

With our heads down, our fingers busy, we don’t look up, and 

in the Algorithms of what is expected, 

we keep producing standard answers,

😊😑👏💓 claps, smilies, frowns, love hearts, cheers🥂

As they say better than what I can say or what you choose to say, even tears 😓 

You are reading me, but are you listening?

We are creating our own truths, analogous to each other, walking together but never the twain meet!

I ‘breathe’ in my echo chamber, breathe in what chimes with me, breathe in what rhymes with me, 

 

While you, in yours, thinking the same! 

 

You don’t see, what I see,  a different script of the same story

Written in our parallel worlds

My heroes are not heroes in your story and vice versa 

And your truths are rubbish in mine!

The essence of what you tell me in a ‘forwarded many times’ message, is lost on me.

 

You are surprised when I don’t ‘like’ it, 

and I am dumbfounded that you liked it! 

What is in this conversation 

From an Echo to another, yes, we the victims of Hera’s curse, left to repeat the repeation.

You are reading me, but are you listening!!