I SEE THE BOYS OF 5G IN THEIR RUIN-Poem [Sa, 6-26-21]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

I SEE THE BOYS OF 5G IN THEIR RUIN-Poem  [Sa, 6-26-21]

 

I see the boys of 5G

in their ruin

eyes mesmerized

by their tiny screens

of flickering reality

 

They walk in the splendors

of flowering dogwoods

but they see only

the dancing girls of tiktok

the world of warcraft

the dragonbalz of anime

and rovers on the planet Mars

nothing on the street

beneath their unfelt feet

 

In trees above ring out

the joy songs of the bluebirds

the romance of the squirrels

[lady chattering’s lover]

the love songs of cicadas

Farmville of the robins

as they build their nests

 

The boys of 5G walk on

unimpeded

in their sounds

of silence

 

The picture falls apart

The connection cannot hold

They zombie on

Hazed, fazed, amazed

in the being of nothingness

 

John Robert McFarland

With thanks and apologies to Dylan Thomas {I see the boys of summer in their ruin} and Wm. Butler Yeats {The Second Coming} and D.H. Lawrence {Lady Chatterly’s Lover}and Paul Simon {The Sounds of Silence}and Jean Paul Satre {Being and Nothingness}.