The Veldt Sumative Assignment

After reading the short story, The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, I wrote this poem to acknowledge all the alienation that is forming within our society due to our ever advancing technology. Our excessive usage of technology is slowly leading us to a social devastation.

Chained Eagles

The sun used to shine brighter,

Back when the skies were clearer,

The eagle’s wings free with possibility,

When the children played amongst the trees,

Swinging from its able-bodied branches,

 

Humanity’s advancements,

Creating this obsessive compulsion,

These so-called improvements,

 

Sitting alone on a park bench,

The vacant swings moving at the command of the wind,

Slides dull and hollow,

 

The laughter from playgrounds no longer ring,

As they’re covered up by a tablets DING,

 

DING, a new notification,

Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,

It’s like our communication skills has started to wither,

 

With every BEEP and DING,

Our anxiety builds up if we don’t check it’s ringing,

It’s a chain and ball confining our wings,

 

DING, a new posting,

Our new measurement of self-value,

Measured in the number of likes,

Followers and comments replacing our breathing,

 

Our technological solutions,

Ridding of all our emotions,

Dividing our connections,

 

A black hole,

A devastation,

No more eye to eye conversations,

 

Hiding from behind a screen,

Attacking, harassing, bullying,

Driving some to breaking,

 

With seven billion on the planet,

We’re facing this new lonely world alone,

Not many friends in real life,

 

As time’s days grow weary,

We do nothing but continue to scroll on our Blackberry’s,

 

Glued to our screens,

The new sustenance of living,

What has happened to playing amongst the trees?

When will the eagle soar freely once again?

 

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