As Vainglorious Narcissists It Makes Us All

Hooked on to our mobile phones,

We have become cases gone!

Who knew seductive technology with all its wooing

Will prove to be our undoing?

When I say it, I might sound terse,

But can there be an addiction worse?

While the hugely disruptive tech holds us in thrall,

And at each other we snap and snarl,

It holds us in its sway

While the last vestiges of our humanity ebb away!

As the social media ironically into anti-socials us turns,

And big holes in our conscience burns,

As vainglorious narcissists it makes us all,

We become puny and it stands menacingly tall!

While we tweet upon tweet,

We have all but lost our bonds sweet!

Engrossed in our virtual fantasies,

We have all but forgotten our all too human ecstasies!

While the unreal world inhabiting  our tiny handsets beguiles us into its snare,

Of the danger looming over our heads we are hardly aware!

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Arun Bhagat

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