~Villanelle~

[tun]

Can we find silence in all this noise?
Fear is the dictator that rules the day.
Aren't we just children playing with our toys?


Thieves come to rob us our little joys
So many voices with so much to say.
Can we find silence in all this noise?


We have grown into spiritual decoys
Screaming and streaming for something to say
Aren't we just children playing with our toys?


High vibration and these spiritual ploys
Manifesting, the universe at play.
Can we find silence in all this noise?


Tik Toking breadcrumbs our psyche enjoys
Leading our minds to wander astray 
Aren't we just children playing with our toys?


The Real world is boring and annoys
And we get upset when our stuff’s taken away.
Can we find silence in all this noise?
Aren't we just children playing with our toys?


* I do not have a working title for this. I am open to suggestions 

This poem makes me smile and it seems to refer to the catastrophe of our age - the human desire to avoid experiencing unmediated reality. At first I thought it was obtuse and heavy handed, but now I don't think so. The last line asks the question - But what is the answer? If we were once children playing with toys - What are we now? This is great.

But when a child plays with a toy, that is a positive thing. And, you know, play is a positive thing, even for adults to do, right? Because it connects us with spontaneity. But is our attachment to our mobile devices play? And is it cultivating in us spontaneity? So that we can, in a sense, say, yes, we're still children playing with our toys, but it seems a lot darker than that to me.

It seems that our mobile devices are not cultivating our capacity for spontaneity. In fact, what they're doing to young people is the opposite. They're depriving them of their faculties, the very faculties that, you know, spontaneity requires.