Under our digital cover
A life spent without a date
A life posted of pictures to rate
A life exposed in posts on a page
A life with regrets that never fade
A life spent in a cyber cage
An app for pictures on your best days
An app for thoughts no-one will read
An app for jokes you never made
An app for nudes better unseen
An app for hookups and people to play
An app to waste what's left of your day
An app to swipe for another lay
An app to judge what people say
An app for everything masking your pain
A digital world leaving reality in shade
A reality where value is overshadowed
Overshadowed by pictures and posts
Pictures and posts better than yours
Options of people in the palm of a hand
People with value decided by others
People devalued by every fantasy
Stories and traits condensed to a cover
Save your judgement for another date
Take your time to experience reality
Skip the hookup and enjoy a date
Let their reality defy your fantasy
Put that digital world into your pocket
Deny that box from deciding your fate
Skip the cover and read the story
Defy your expectations blinded by vanity
Find the value hidden in humanity
You might just find what you couldn't uncover
There's a love in reality for you to discover
Because you experience life when you discard the cover
These digital covers hide our humanity
But in our reality we can find the things we could never uncover
This is the story of how I learned to love
I had to ditch the cover to discover my lover.
I love you Hannah, you discovered what I kept under my cover.
Alexander J. Wolfe
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Alexander J. Wolfe (
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Comments3
Very true, what happened to the days when life was more important than likes and views and going viral
I wish I knew, I was born in 2000 so I grew up in the digital age, yet I yearn for the old way of life. I feel like I don't belong in these times, I suppose I feel alienated by the pervasive influence of social media and technological addiction. Thank you or reading and thanks for your input!
'An app for everything masking your pain
A digital world leaving reality in shade'..
'Options of people in the palm of a hand
People with value decided by others
People devalued by every fantasy
Stories and traits condensed to a cover'..
I couldn't help relating to your whole write
but these lines still stood out..
insightful, considered commentary
an important message and timely..
thanks for sharing
I imagine that there are many amongst us that relate. I think there is something innate inside of us that finds our current reality hard to truly accept. Thank you for reading, I appreciate your input!
You captured alot with this,thanks for your awareness and sharing,take care
I appreciate that, thank you for reading, and thanks for the input!
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