Do you know that I am human?
I am not a nothing
That is behind your phone screen
When you text me
I am a real person
With emotions and feelings
Do you know that I am not a toy?
I’m not just some game
That you play on your computer
I am a real person
With a heart and a mind
That is tortured every time
It is treated like a nothing
Do you know that I am not a robot?
I can’t just be entertained one day
And forgotten the next
Without extreme consequences
Unlike a robot
I have needs
I have wants
My heart is left to rot
Every time it is abandoned past recall
I think sometimes
Our society is overrun by technology
We forget how to be human beings
We forget how to treat one another
We get lost in the chaos
And instead of finding ourselves
In someone else
We end up making enemies
Rather than friends