IPad, IPhone, Laptop, TV
All have screens constantly facing me
Upload a pic, status updates and tweet
Missing moments that may never repeat
Catch a text while I drive
The screen equates being alive
Mutli -tasking we claim
I can look and listen to you just the same
But what do we miss while living behind the screen
Eyes always darting back to the attention machine
Adults say it is a problem with this teen generation
Though many are guilty of the same fixation
A slumped shoulder from a loved ones hard day
A tear drop, a frown, a smile, a chance to play
With a husband, wife, child, or friend
Missed moments, while on our screens we depend
In restaurants, our toddlers zoned on a screen
Adults sit by fixated just like the teen
Employers frown as workers sneak a quick peek
To see what the screen in their pockets speak
Our screens tell us where to be
When to go and who we will see
They make us our money while stealing our time
Life in the screen—a 21st century silent crime.
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