Oh help me please, I’m an addict!
I’m suffering, all alone
It’s not some drugs or the cigarettes
I just can’t get off my phone!
When my wife is in the bathroom
And my kids are in their zones
The sun may be calling out my name
But I can’t get off my phone!
When at work, my boss is busy
Or I’m returning to my home
While the world moves on and looks away
I delve back into my phone.
I can’t get off my phone, my friend!
I can’t get off my phone!
The pull is strong,
The apps are long,
I can’t get off my phone!
A comet may be shimmering by
In the sky, like a bright gemstone
But I would rather gaze at it
Through the camera on my phone
When it’s time for supper and family
And my chair is offered like a throne
While my family chews and chomps away
On my lap, I glance at my phone
The news is ever ready
The apps are all well-known
I’m always caught in the internet
In the wine bottle of my phone
In the morning she wakes me up
She never leaves me alone
She’s begun to resemble my loving wife!
I just can’t get off my phone!
In fact, now my loving children
My family and my home,
The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas,
They all look like my precious phone!
I can’t get off my phone, my friend!
I can’t get off my phone!
The pull is strong,
The apps are long,
I can’t get off my phone.
I know it’s an addiction
More entrenched than a hormone
It’s become like one my internal organs
I can’t live without my phone
And now the addiction’s had its way
I think I’ll live all alone
I’ll go to a cave and just live there
With my beloved, precious phone.
So beware my friend if she calls you
Beware her apps and drones
Beware the androids and tempting apples
They’ll make you adore your phone
I wish I could stare at the boundless sky
And smell a flower’s cologne
I wish I could picture the refreshing seas
Without the senses of my phone
I wish I could look at the eyes of my wife
And my children’s funny cheekbones
I wish I could live and breathe without
The desire to stare at my phone.
I can’t get off my phone, my friend!
I can’t get off my phone!
The pull is strong,
The apps are long,
I can’t get off my phone.
Poet’s Note: No apples or androids were harmed during the production of this poem