They beckon for attention every second every day
beaming endless streams of tweets and twits and bleeps and bits and comments our way.
We esteem ourselves their masters. What deluded fools we are
to think that we would will ourselves to simply turn them off.
We could console our lonely souls if we would stop and interact
but instead we need our dopamine dose – we know this for a fact.
This will only take a minute. This is technically not a lie.
But as the minutes become infinite our total time spent hits the sky.
Deep down we know these screens that glow are not where our lives reside
yet we allow these screens to burrow evermore inside our minds
consuming our attention until they take over our lives.
And we fritter away our days as minutiae fill our brains
and we flock around our screens not unlike moths drawn to the flame.
Until the data drains our brains and we gaze straight at the abyss.
Our screens entice us like the Siren’s song. Who among us can resist?