Saturday 26 January 2013

antiSocial


The person you are
calling is currently
unavailable,
please leave a message
after the tone.

Inbox empty,
you currently have no
new messages.

My phone vibrates,
a moments elation
deleted
by a network text.

Only Facebook asks me
how I feel.
I tell it I feel
alone
and twenty ‘friends’ respond
sending hollow hugs and
‘thinking of you vibes’.

You are not one of them.

Log-in to Yahoo messenger,
your name fades to
grey.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll see
your face.
But then I remember
you’re
one Hundred miles away.


© Cat Hill 2013


Inspired by dVerse prompt with focus on the Media 

18 comments:

  1. oh...felt...a bit cold and alone...and only digital hollow hugs to show...all the ways to communicate and nothing there...

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    1. Thanks for the comment, that's the kind of feeling I was going for...

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  2. There are so many ways to ignore people now - so much for social media :-) I enjoyed this - especially as I have heard you read it out loud. Good to see you at dVerse.

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    1. Heehee thanks, glad I get to hear some of your poems allowed too :)

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  3. Oh. That's sad. Hope it's not true.

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    1. It's only been true for me once when I lost touch with a close friend. But mostly I was just trying to get across the irony of having many forms of communication, yet there is still so much loneliness...

      Thanks for commenting.

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  4. Isn't it ironic that social and mass media makes us more alone and so unsocial ~

    And do we really tell the whole world how we feel ~ Good response to the prompt ~

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    1. Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. Completely agree.

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  5. Oh this hit home hard. Social media was created to network and I feel like on a personal level it is stuffed with a multi-dimension feeling of rejection. I love Twitter but FB is so socially confusing for me

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    1. Definitely agree about Facebook, I find it very confusing yet I log-on to it daily... hmm. Thanks for the comment :)

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  6. the modern dilemma, social media gives us the means to stay connected and yet it is so distant and sometimes a little more lonely.

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    1. I'm glad the message came across properly. Thanks for the visit :)

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  7. We face the fake intimacy daily yet go back for more.

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    1. So true... I'm one of millions with an addiction to hollow intimacy.

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  8. The many friends you have on Facebook can never replace a warm body because even there... the world can be so lonely.

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    1. Agreed that you really can't beat a real hug. Thanks for visiting :)

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  9. i think social media is a good extension to social life...go a bit beyond the borders..but then..it def. doesn't replace real face-to-face relationships...sometimes we just need real hugs...a felt write..

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