Eric Pickersgill
By
Blanca Alicia Garza
Brain Washed
What is happening
with our beautiful world
It is tumbling and
Falling apart.
We’re destroying it
with hatred and beliefs
We’re living with fear
even to turn on the TV
To find just bad news there
and meaningless advertising
Poison in our food
New diseases
But less cures
Where the clowns now
wear suits and ties
And the Justice has
closed their eyes.
Who’s Texting Who?
We live in such a strange
and unkind world.
Where you can stand
beside a thousand people
but feel completely invisible.
Where a cold shiny screen
can make you feel close to
those who are far away,
but make you feel far away
to those who are closer.
Where conversation turns
into text, relationships are
just a status and friendship
a rivalry.
Where we live to work
and not work to live.
Where people are like zombies
staring at their phones and
completely ignoring all that
happens around them.
Where you can take a picture of
food while ignoring an image
of a starving child.
Where Family turns into strangers
and strangers into family.
This world is falling apart
under our own feet
Full of hatred but empty of love.
Welcome to the 21st Century,
where technology has
surpassed humanity.
Blanca, both of these poems are sobering reflections of today’s society; “Brain Washed” is an excellent writing that makes my heart ache even more so knowing that with my next foray into turning on my enquiring mind to wander into a news links of current affairs, I TOO shall become one of those zombies with head bent, intent only on self preservation after reading of the latest horrific mass murder in the world. What have we become indeed.
As for “Who’s Texting Who”, it is so widespread, sad to say, that I’m certain an image from a satellite way above would reveal there would be nothing but the reflection of electronics overshadowing the owners holding the devices. It is worrisome and frustrating to see. Provocative writing; well done.
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