Modern Living

A

Cold and impersonal

Mixture of steel

Glass and concrete

Edifice.

 

Erected

To warehouse

People.

 

Rabbits

Stuffed into warrens

Reaching high

Into the sky.

 

Where

Any thought

Of a community are

A distant dream.

 

Lost

In translation

Between the blueprints

And floors poured.

 

Like

Tiny insular

Conclaves

Unto themselves.

 

As

Neighbours live

Side by side

Never knowing

Each other's name.

 

Beyond

A few pleasantries

Shared.

 

During

The daily rush

To and fro

From the elevators.

 

As they

Cocoon themselves

Within their apartments

Until the next

Interaction.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

apartment buildings are like this...lived in one back in the 50's in NY---

much like the computer age...we are so compartmentalized...not much human face to face contact anymore.

i feel modern living is not really living.

[therisa]

The thing is, Jacob, this social condition, which we call apartment/condo living with be getting worse, as the density levels increase, for urban areas.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that is so true.

[Holly Mason]

wow girl this is wonderful
you have captured the modern world in your words
a few pleasantries -wonder when the time will come that even these are forgotten as we cocoon up in our homes
thank you this is a really good write!

[therisa]

Thank you, Holly, for your support.