POEM STARTER
Write an Epode based on any theme you like.
An Epode is a style of poetry where each verse is two lines which differ in meter and structure, but the second line is always shorter than the first.
The Regression From Progression
As time goes on, as it changes
People will always evolve
They will always evolve
Always change
Having social bonds, making friends
Online ones
That we don’t talk to, get to be around with
Lacking true connections
Being more together when it comes to things
Finding more common ground
How people can’t find much of it nowadays
Always fighting over something
How we are using more of our brains
Thinking much more often
Making sure we use constant unreliable info
That always randomly show up
That looks totally reliable
Thanks to the perfect internet
Allowing us to use our brains and time
Distracting ourselves
Mindlessly and for who knows how long
Hours, months, even years
Our environments change
More pollution, more climate change
More bad fog, more destroyed habitats
Wasting resources all the time
How we feel also really changes
Feeling more pressured
To please, to impress, to compare very often
Feeling quite all over the place
More stressed, more angry, more depressed
more lazy, more whiny
Less emphatic, more insecure, more negative
More turbulent, more confused, and so on
And as we change as time continuously goes
As our technology gets better and better
We do things differently in life
With how much we do
For we do nothing, sometimes nothing at all
Just sitting idly by
Watching life, letting time go on by
Just stuck
Stuck in ignorance and laziness
Like me!
Because after I am done with this poem
I’ll simply
Simply just mindlessly consume stuff online
Wasting time, just like everyone else
Look at how far we have come as a species
Think about how it’ll be centuries later