An Ode to Connection

This is a small verse I wrote whilst waiting for a train one sunny summers day.

It is not often that I catch a train and I found my reaction immediate and powerful and soon found a notepad and pen in my hands as I scribbled furiously my thoughts.

Something to ponder perhaps…..

An Ode to Connection

The platform’s so busy

With people so sad

As they bustle like robots

No joy do they have

 

As clouds drift by slowly

So free and so wild

Below them – humanity

A blithering child

Consumed by their Facebook

And thousands of friends

Ignoring what’s present

The crazy won’t end

Despite all this techno

To take up their time

Humanity is failing

Unable to shine

Their souls they are crumbling

Weighed down by such grief

Of connections once fertile

But now lost and so brief

Oh i-pod, oh i-phone

The scourge of our day

You cut off the people

And hid them away

In prisons of music

And Facebook and clouds

No longer connecting

To joys that abound

For just past those keyboards

And earphones and mail

Is a world full of wonder,

And nature and scale

So look up – and see

All the joy that’s around

Connect with the Universe

Results are profound

For in each one of us

Our soul cries out loud

To look out from the prison

To this joy that abounds

So unplug those earphones

Dare to look – say hello

This grandeur is waiting

To put on a show

A show that can take us

To where we are best

A place that will nurture

Encourage our quest

For all our sweet pleasure

And the cost – it is free

So look out from your prison

And set yourself free.

For to know your full glory

And bring it to be

You must be connected

You must want to see

The wonder that’s waiting

When we dare to just be

So look out from your prison

And set yourself free.

 - Christine Denny July 2014 -