Mi Don't Care Poem, by Antoinette Cassandra, at My poetic side

Mi Don’t care if you take the wifi from me:

Mi don’t care if I can’t go on Youtube

To watch d broadcasts that I miss

To go watch d music video

To go watch d comedy video

Save that for another day

Or if mi can’t go on Snapchat

To see what me friends are up too

Or if me can’t go on Instagram

To go watch them short clips

Save that for another day

Or if me can’t listen to Buju Banton

Nicki Minaj, Vybz Kartel

Or Martinez on Spotify

The music is me head

Save that for another day

Or if me can’t go on MSP,

Club Penguin, Bin Weevil

or Animal Jam every once in a while

I am getting too old for that- time to move on

Save that for another day

Besides, me have other things to do-

Wash d dishes, look after d rabbits,

Do me school work, do me homework

Do me revision, do me hardest.

But all of d above things

Stop me from doing so.

Mummy if you are reading this, I am sincerely sorry

For not doing me school work to d best standard

For not focusing in class enough.

For not revising when I should be,

So me get bad grade

For you spending money for me clarinet lesson

When me don’t practice at all.

For you paying for tuition,

Me have made zero progress,

For me saying that I am trying my hardest

When me doing nothing.

Me remember when I used to read a lot,

Study a lot,

Me also remember when I practice me flute

And made progress in Tuition.

But when me look into d mirror now,

All I see is a girl who is going to fail in life,

Who is going to make excuses for not studying,

Yet I have done nothing about it.

New Year is coming soon,

Which means I will become a new leaf

But this time not just saying I will do it.

But I will DO IT

So disable d wifi all you like

I do not care any longer

As long as it means, that I will not longer spend 20 hours looking on YouTube

I am perfectly ok.

And for all those who struggle or are addicted to the internet,

Please try and fight the addiction

If you can shut off the screen for a moment and look at yourself,

You can see that d internet is taking away d opportunities of life.

Author: Antoinette Cassandra ( Offline)
Published: December 29th, 2016 18:35
Comment from author about the poem: I wanted to write this simple, non-rhythmic poem, about computer addiction. My cousin has it, and so do I. I have had computer addiction for 3 years now. It has now affected my life socially and mentally too. These days I just sit there all day watching YouTube and going on Snapchat and stuff. I have a seven-year-old sister who I used to enjoy playing with- I have become rude and hostile to her, because of my addiction. School and Work come to AFTER YouTube, so I mostly get it done last minute- if not, then last, LAST minute. I don't revise leading to bad grades. I have tuition twice a week, which used to make SOME progress- it makes zero to none now. I also have clarinet lessons and LAMDA- which of course, I don't bother practicing. It is only now that I have TRULY seen its side effects On this night (29/12/16), my mum had said to disconnect the wifi while she's a work for the day, so there's no wifi for the majority of the day. At first, I cried about it, realizing I could've tried that little bit harder to stop the addiction. But I couldn't. Eventually, I got over it and decided to write this poem. There is also a little message at the end, for those of you who do struggle with internet addiction. If you do have an internet addiction or are falling into it, realise the side effects of what is doing/what is going to happen to you, and try to stop, so you don't end up making the same mistakes as I did. I know it might be a long journey for recovery for me, but by the end of it, I should go from going on to the laptop 20 hours a day, to only spending 1-2 on it. (Also, I'm half Jamaican. So I did this poem in Jamaican Patois. Thought it be nice) (Put this categoried as 'Letter', because it's basically a letter.) Ok, I'm done here! ~Cassandra
Category: Letter
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