Jeremy Leach

Battery life

God knows we’re all now servants of the electron’s flow

Taking our phone about us whenever and wherever we go

Watching the power’s percentage and eking out the final drop

The phone teeters on ‘death’ until we get that last shot

 

Oh the halcyon days before we all had these devices in pockets

Before the umbilical-corded mess of charging cables and sockets

Simpler, more human days, long before all these mobilised phones

Of being free to think, contemplate life, and of being left alone

 

One day I’m sure we’ll think all this nonsense was quaint

Standing reading our social, trying to look cool when we ain\'t

In truth it was a troubled relationship, like between a feuding husband and wife

Flashing about our new phones, that had a crap battery life