Tag: technology

Vanishing Point

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

It is easy enough to forget
What we are capable of
Without all the machines
And technologies of the massive

Such exquisite beauty