Absorbed
by Malini Tarakadu Seshu
Grade 8

Why are we so divided?

Why don’t we feel each other anymore?

Does life have a purpose?

If it does, we don’t find it anymore.

Or is it that we don’t search?

 

Technology assisted mankind, of course,

Our life balances on a digital podium.

But that foundation is weak, 

It is on the verge of shattering,

One broken piece for every dead soul.

 

Why don’t we just talk to each other?

It’s like we’re absorbed into a digital world.

There are no flights back.

All we must to do is a lift of the head,

A smile, a greeting, a life not dead anymore.

 

People don’t look at each other,

Even when someone is next to you.

What did they do to you?

You brought this on yourself,

You don’t seem like you care.

 

Family, aren’t they? Friends, aren’t we?

Is it so hard to be alive?

Is it so hard to live?

Is it so hard to restart?

Now only we can save ourselves, 

Try to live and try to hope.