Tag: technology

Taps

Subdued
Somnolent sun descends
Asleep before the pillow
Deep sepia blankets
Nightlight on
Sweet dreams

Once, there were days

Many days
When I had nowhere to go
And all day to get there

Now I seem to be
Everywhere at once
But nowhere at all

All the time

I often wonder
If the city is
The beauty it seems to me
Or perhaps some
Unmitigated tragedy

A grand delusion
At the end of a road
A wrong fork taken
Many eons ago

The wild places
Remind me
My presence here
Is a gift of technology

Electricity and engines
Polymers and composites
Production lines and factories

I could not make
A single thing I’ve brought

All I really need
Are wheels

And the fuel
To keep them rolling

The revolution will not be televised

But it will be watched
On small screens
Live

Recorded
Streamed
And shared

A million times over

Perhaps, that is a better thing

I travel through time
Not with feats
Of technology
But as an enterprise
Of imagination