Whether walking or waiting,
Sitting, eating or standing.
They're all are texting and gaming,
Reading, or checking.
Concentrating, pressing,
Touch-screen dragging.
Mostly 'finger' talking,
Voiceless phone conversing,
Emotionless, conversations,
Muted communications.
Rolling fingers and thumb,
Is how the 'talking' is done.
No need for full spelling.!
Kind of abbreviations are the 'new' writing.
That's another aspect of the language,
Written word continually suffers damage.
Text 'speak' the dictionary, it's entering,
Adding, enriching or further eroding.!
Detrimental to the vocabulary,
Undermining standards of literacy.
Expression not required nor tongues,
Subtly converting us not to use our lungs.!
Much like the television of decades and today,
Slowly sucking the art of conversation away.
Are we gradually 'interfacing' with the machines, ?
Television, computer, I. Pad and phone screens.
Progress, change, maybe just evolution.,
Whatever, Is it sub conscience collusion.?
Is it coincidence or by some shadowy design,
Incremental subversion with techniques sublime.!
Increasingly and unwittingly endorsing,
That we are slowly but surely 'morphing'?
21/11/12
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
I realy liked this! You know I see it too, but fortunately every technological advancement has the ability to do good or bad. Huxley said, people are at once the victims as well as the beneficiaries of the society in which they live. This was very well-written, with critical analysis of the evolution of man. I think in the future the line between human and machine will slowly start to blur, but as long as the human spirit is kept alive, as long as there is curiosity and compassion, we have a chance! !