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Faces on a Screen

June 13, 2021
By AfahRMG BRONZE, Kochi, Other
AfahRMG BRONZE, Kochi, Other
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Blank pallid faces

Staring at a screen,

Glossy unblinking eyes

Gazing on, uncomprehendingly.

At other faces on a screen.

~

Just breathing zombies

Sitting in their homes

Staring at all the

Faces on the screen, 

That stare back, disinterestedly.

~

Faces that once used to

Light up with joy,

Cry out in anger,

Now, don't really feel.

Just listless faces, full of apathy.

~

Faces that just nod

In unison to the beat,

Faces that once had 

Opinions and individuality,

Now stick to the lines of the given script.

~

Faces that once used to

Sing out loud

From their hearts,

Have now been silenced

Into a voiceless crowd.

~

Faces that I used to 

Call "loved ones",

Have become distant strangers

Who stare at each other,

From the other side of the screen.


The author's comments:

"Faces on a Screen" is a poem about how people give up their opinions, lose their individuality, and start marching to the beat of society's drums. In doing so, they are reduced to barely living zombies, and lose all that they love. It also refers to how people grow apart from their family and friends during  tumultous times of separation.


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