Tech Tock
Tech Tock
Tech Tock, Tech Tock,
Let the world see how I spend my clock.
The restless QWERTY board rattles the most.
A stage is set, Internet, the host.
Follower quotients are all the rage.
Let the world see how I gild my cyber cage.
Proclamations, validation, ego manifest.
Engulfed with pride: showing only my best.
Too many friends. Too little time.
Endless pursuance of the sublime.
The negative, I eschew.
The positive, I pursue.
What is this delusion?
My guilty pleasure of cyber seclusion.
Celebrating, judging, reassuring, envying.
In my quiet corner, my soul will not sing.
The global web-based opera.
Constricting, dilating my viscera.
Self-doubt propagating.
Nature surrounds me; living is waiting
I choose to observe. I don’t always have the nerve
To partake? Am too much of a flake.
Friends live abroad, family too.
I relish their updates and my regular review.
It has become too surreal.
Too much info, what to feel?
Sucked into the vortex.
More time gone, and I am vexed.
Is the Alchemy of friendship buried in a chip?
Is my endless quest for approval sequestered in being hip?
Is this my truest life?
I ask does it bring more joy than strife?
I continue to seek the balance.
And ask how does it enhance.
I choose to not allow it to lead me astray.
Not burgle my time, nor dominate my play
Tech Tock, Tech Tock.
I control my clock.
About this poem
My musings on social media and the impact it has on my life.
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Written on April 05, 2015
Submitted by adelelenaleahy on September 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
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Words | 342 |
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