Checking our text messages, emails, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks in a deep sea of many
Always comes first before thanking God for allowing and giving us the honor of waking up to another day of life
Saying grace before a meal has been replaced by taking a picture of it for likes on Instagram
We have forgotten that meals aren’t bragging rights they are blessings
That there are people in third world countries who go days without eating
Who will eventually die of hunger
And here we are taking pictures of our food instead of thanking God for an unappreciated blessing
We are letting technology raise our children
Electricity is beginning to run through their veins
Their tender developing minds know nothing more than what Google is teaching them
We buy our 5 year-old children iPad’s instead of the childhood books we learned to love at that innocent age
We buy our adolescents iPhones instead of bibles
We take them to the apple store more often than we take them to church
They are beginning to think with their fingers and thumbs instead of their brains
Kids are killing themselves due to the online taunting of their peers
Bullying has been made easier by the anonymity that comes with owning these human made devices
And we witness all of this but we do nothing to stop it
Social gatherings are no longer the same
We sit in a round table surrounded by friends
The sound of laughter and a good time
Has been replaced by the sound of incoming text messages
More focused on seeing what strangers are tweeting instead of listening to the stories of our life long friends
Making eye contact has become a thing of the past everyone is looking down at their phones their faces illuminated by the brightness of their cellphone screens
Online lovers overflowing like water in a cup under a running faucet
We’ve become so attached to these strangers making them our online significant others
Men chasing the digital skirts of women who they will most likely never meet
Women investing their time into men thousands of miles away from them
Lusting over the online images of these people not remembering that not everyone is who he or she claims to be
Dating has been made easier by registering for an eHarmony account
Yet we lack the common sense to realize that we are playing Russian roulette risking our lives
Because you can’t tell a rapist, serial killer, or mentally deranged person from a normal person just by a profile picture
Our lives are quickly melting into nothing under technology’s burning flame even Dali would be stunned
The story of our lives will be composed from a mixture of our emails and Facebook posts
The legacy we will leave behind will consists of nothing more than the amount of twitter followers we acquired
Unlike our cellphones and laptops we aren’t made of glass or plastic material
Our skin melanin infused and our body composed of cells, bones, and water
We have an expiration date and one day we will die
And reality is that the pearly gates of heaven wont be as accessible as our Wi-Fi
We will have to stand before God and explain to him why we doubted the bible but we never doubted anything that we read online
STILL A NOBODY 