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Tyranny

02/12/2022

Tyranny

How to flee this digital storm?

Spirit’s tired and body’s worn

From the toxic strain of living

So very distant from the norm

Oh to live again at a pace that’s slower

Back in mother Nature’s bower

From who we’re now quite orphaned

By those who sit in power.

To live again in a passive world

Where we’re free to take or leave

Not blitzed by ads, seduced by fads

And harassed ’til we bleed

When that digital wave first came lapping

A novelty to our shores

Little did we guess, like the Trojan Horse,

The sicknesses it bore

Although its allure was sugar-sweet

Designed to win us over

We’re now ensnared by prickly thorns

And by poison in the clover

It’s too late to turn back now, I fear

Too late to voice regret

We’ve all been taken prisoner

Our very souls in check.

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