Put Down Your Phone. – A Poem

By Daisy Torres

I watched you go ice skating, but my mind found something grating. You stood on the ice with a

friend, took a quick picture, and that was the end.

I saw you scrolling yesterday, looking at a post. It seemed like you thought reality was a ghost.

You seem so intent on seeing pictures of mountains, that you forget—they don't exist on the

internet.

I saw a man talking to you, but I don't think you knew. His smile grew strained as he waited for

you to reply, but only a screen seemed to hold your eye.

I saw things that were lovely—flowers and trees with wonder in their leaves, but there's a

loneliness that comes when the visions I see can't be shared without screens.

Time is watching you, that much is known. And it's not waiting for you to put down your phone.