Pixelated Paradise

This is about the proliferation of technology in modern society and the many issues it brings along with it.

They say

There’s no salvation

In this wicked world

Of deceit and imitation

 

Wistful and worried

The children softly sigh

Playgrounds and play yards

Left deserted as they cry

 

Numbers and pixels

Fill our sight today

One zero one

The message leads us astray

 

Perhaps we’ll figure out

Our logic is flawed

As we hide behind

This digital facade

 

In this age

Of materialism and egotism

The more we indulge

The greater the schism

 

The puzzle rearranges

A revelation is unveiled

Here in this pixilated paradise

A new king is hailed

 

We write our final chapter

In the great book of faces
Scrawled in the same font

Used to graffiti my spaces

 

As we sit in our rooms

Our brains begin to rot

This is the life

Our digital menagerie has brought

 

Some say it’s beautiful

But I just want to give it a rest

For it is hard to be philosophical

When all is in jest

 

Here in paradise

With the wisps and pixies

We can roam free

Like nomads and gypsies

But is that life

Or are we simply dreaming

Never satisfied

We’re always scheming

 

How can we make it

And get our big break

Becoming part of the virus

Is a chance we gladly take

 

For with every click

We fall deeper into this rabbit hole

Bleaker and blacker

It leaves it’s imprint upon our soul

 

In paradise

We’ve built a wall

Of our own ignorance

The higher it rises, the further we fall

 

I fear for our future

And as the bottom approaches

I don’t doubt that when the bomb drops

It’ll be just duct tape and roaches

 

For what is our youth

But disciples to their messiah

The box with a screen

A modern day pariah
 

I often wonder
With these feelings that vex

Why in such a sanctimonious tryst

Do we celebrate this digital hex

 

In the loneliest moments

On the darkest of nights

I sit reflecting upon

Society’s many blights

For why do we care

If she’s thick or thin

Does it really matter

If you don’t quite fit in

 

Stand out
Forsake the hedonistic call

For together we rise

Above the digital downfall