New Norm
New technology’s a wondrous thing;
it keeps our minds active, full of zip and of zing!
I email my friends and I virtually chat,
but sometimes it can leave you feeling quite flat.
Oh how we cheered as we began meeting in person –
buzz, nuance and badinage, even an excursion!
Old friendships renewed, enhanced and enriched,
augmented by new bonds, just as we wished.
But ponder a while on the folk unconnected
who have in their isolation felt so often rejected.
Let us chat to a shopper, make smiling a habit
for a stranger who yearns for a friendly face on this planet –
not just a passing whim, but make kindness the new norm,
and guess what – society might eventually transform.
Will we miss being so virtual, will our loss be acute?
At least we’ll hear less of the dreaded UNMUTE!