We don’t talk anymore Or socialize like before Long conversations are a bore That’s what a text message is for And we’re attached to our phone Like we’re in the Twilight Zone That’s not the way it used to be When we had intimacy
We don’t talk face to face Social media took its place We rarely stop to embrace Old memories become erased It’s a brand- new generation Lacking the time or patience To verbally communicate When we want to relate
We don’t talk anymore From Alabam to Rotterdam We Snapchat or Instagram See it’s a new millennium And social media is the idiom We use the most to express What we have on our chest
Some look back to yesterday Appreciating the old way We used our mouths to try to say What we wanted to convey We looked each other in the eye And waited for the sure reply To whatever we were saying Or our features were displaying
A poem is a sound. Its meaning becomes a lyric. And if you want to feel it, feel it like a raindrop that ripples through your soul. And if it's raining within now, it's because you listened.