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Timothy Waddell

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

15 poems·Since August 2016

Kansas resident, studying molecular bioscience at ku. I have been writing for around 8 years. I find writing poetry to be a canvas that absorbs my thoughts. Able to be shared with, and hopefully enjoyed by, my peers.

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Recording Rights

August 24, 2016
  • Thoughts and ideals prescribed on paper
  • Preserve the persona prevalent to the past 
  • Many perspectives presented themselves 
  • But The victors copy only was written to last 
  • As our scale of time flows forever forward 
  • Expanding numbers ever closer to infinity 
  • Recording rights are expressly relinquished 
  • From history's monopoly of strictly victory 
  • Media is recorded at a Demi constant pace
  • Information extended freely from the inter web 
  • To the hand of whoever desires a download  
  • From a light spun pattern decoded by the head
  • Actions hold a weight with unknown potential
  • But certainly making anonymity a challenge
  • A virtual timeline follows the path of each
  • Careless posts are crushed by future talons 
  • Format text, photos, and video into a profile 
  • Now even before device aptitude is achieved 
  • Pictures en utero and a video of first steps 
  • Sent and stuck to the web to be perceived 
  • Hidden behind usernames and passwords 
  • Explorers sift and subscribe to their interests 
  • Automatically notified of every development 
  • Within moments of when the event manifests 
  • As a result of this constantly updating culture
  • Life is uploaded and shared with all who care
  • Virtually linking physical beings to one another 
  • Along with all the happenings relevancy can bear 
  • The answers to most questions but is a click away 
  • Proof provided by citing publicly trusted sources
  • There Is a community online for every individual
  • Regardless of standing or available resources 
  • So now Everyman can have his life recorded
  • Find his favorite corner, and build his legacy
  • Welcome to the almighty Information Age 
  • Where just a hyperlink can be your obituary 
 
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