Back in Time

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t try to be a hypocrite

I like the era in which I live in

With the technological advances

That has helped us

Whether it’s at school, at home, at work

Such advances have helped make our lives easier

At times way too much…

The advances have helped us with life so much

It helps avoid life itself at times

Because while trying to communicate with people

From far away and that don’t really know you

One forgets about the people right in front of you

The ones who actually know and care for you

We also get help in getting more fat into our bodies

Since we don’t like to move anymore

One day we shall end up as chubbies

Just like in the movie Wall-E

When we actually bother to listen to something

Such as music

Technology itself seems to have beaten us up in that game

For we don’t even hear instruments playing beautiful melodies

Just beeps from a machine

As for the lyrics

They don’t teach anything of value anymore

Just to party all night long

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t try to be a hypocrite

I like the era in which I live in

With the technological advances

But still, at times I wish to go back in time

Back to the time when families

Would sit down together to eat

And to actually talk with each other

 About their thoughts and feelings

Rather than just sit, eat, and be on the cellphones

Back to the time when people, especially kids,

 Would play and create adventures outside

Rather than just sitting on the couch watching Netflix

Back to the time when music actually meant something

To have a beautiful rhythm to dance with

Or to relate to the lyrics when someone feels down

Rather than the beeps and weird sounds

Created from the machine and bad songwriters

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t try to be a hypocrite

I like the era in which I live in

With the technological advances

But if I were to change something in this world

It would be my timeline

To go back in time

Back to maybe more complicated times

Yet at the same time, better times