Do you remember when our friendships were easy,
and no one had to be concerned lest
an expression of our personal view point
might slip past our lips, and alienate us
from someone’s company we enjoy?
Remember when fears of the future weren’t a priority
and the latest news didn’t infiltrate our conversation,
causing haste to change the subject
lest we entangle ourselves in a losing battle
over a diverse opinion?
Remember when tweeting was for the birds,
and the social media sites were for socializing,
when phones were for talking or emergencies,
and our whole life wasn’t ingrained
somewhere on the cloud.?
Remember when ‘rabbit holes’ were for rabbits
rather than a place to dig for strange theories
of shocking things, likely only created by
a foreign adversary seeking to divide or
perhaps a want-to-be fiction writer?
Remember when the news told us what was happening
rather than some anchor’s spin or what we should believe;
when politics were boring, and left to those we elected
to take an oath and govern in in compliance
with the constitution?
Do you miss those days of not so long ago,
or am I dreaming of an alternate reality which existed
only in some other dimension?
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