Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Enslaved by my mobile

I pick it up and put it back and I pick it up again

‘I will just take a second’ is my standard refrain


I had picked it up once and I picked it up twice

in less than two minutes, and that was not nice!


My eyes burnt, fingers hurt, neck felt awkward

Back bent double, as I check out every forward 


Seconds turned to minutes in a matter of time

Minutes became hours, sans reason or rhyme


WhatsApp or news, I scrolled down till the end 

And when it was done, I started it all over again!


At first, it was just a naïve way to keep in touch

Now my family says, ‘You are absent too much’


Milk spilled, meetings missed, insomnia looming 

As I watched another episode of ‘Homecoming’


Excited or bored, I just reach out for my phone

Having no track of the time I have spent alone


Is it the peer pressure of not being up-to-date?

Or is it the fear of having nothing to anticipate?


I blame it on the feel-good chemical in my brain

But it’s not going to help me from going insane


There has to be a way to change this skivvy fate

I need to reboot into reality before it is too late!




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