paradigm shift

i.
so many lonely people
with a thousand facebook friends
from tower and sharp steeple
searching for life's quick-fix ends!

ii.
so many how i love you
words in digital array,
whose empty sentiments spew
in the face of shark and prey.

iii.
so many perfect fake smiles
deck each pornographic page,
beneath whose visors lurk the wiles
of men's inherent rage.

iv.
so many hard-up stories
with their complicated twists,
some pregnant with vainglories,
some interred beneath vain mists.

v.
so many men infirm, whose
vacant slots expose their shame
who, dangling by the hang-noose
of poor choices, others blame.

vi.
so many hungry children,
naked, cold, and fatherless,
dwell where all hopes are barren,
in their landlocked wilderness.

vii.
a bubble world in cyber-
space, where virtual is real;
new world, who can conscribe her
all these ravages to heal!

© Copyright 2023 May 09
by Clyve A. Bowen♫