The World is Due for an Upgrade #wordprompt

Look around, kid.
In less than two hours,
the world will upgrade.
The old one is broken--
it always has been

It placed too much importance 
on contests and outward advancement
depleting us of needed life-force to advance us

It gave confusing and objectifying messages
about what our bodies
were supposed to look like

It made us ashamed of what our bodies became--
made us start to disassociate
when wonderful we already were

It put too much value on vanity, moxies, and bragging
provided almost no outlets 
for vulnerabilities and foibles

It made us snare at one another's whimsy,
made us capricious, cold, and vagarious--
numb to real human emotions

It glamorized the availability of the damn easy-button,
introduced us to gadgets and mind-altering drugs
that offered instant gratification and the illusions of calm

It preached that boys don't cry, boys don't feel;
that girls conform and obey.
As if!

It encouraged the open-at-all-hours mindset;
doing more at the expense of sleep.
How in the world could sleep be optional?

We, intelligent, modern people with smartphones,
private jets, and our important, busy lives– 
got tricked into believing in a future-less world,
tricked into clinging on to a made-up existence

That was a world that complained too much,
stockpiled too much, 
spoke from imagined altitudes of grandeur, 
and stepped over those less fortunate

Look around, kid.
In less than two hours,
the world will upgrade.
That old world is broken--
upended, derailed

Go. Gather your loved ones
this upgrade will advance us, 
but only if we switch on a new perspective

One that transmits a more accurate story
of a world with equal rights.
One that unites our collective spirits,
by the same story of love for the earth and brethren

One where we spread a message of hope
for our children, for our homes
because what we're sacrificing today
are things for the sake of our tomorrows

Look around, kid.
In less than two hours,
the world will upgrade.

From that old world that is broken--
grace, life-force, hope-- inner peace 
will descend.

***
© 2021 selmamartin.com

… in two hours– where will you be?

Hello friends, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on WordPress and following along where
writing prompts call to me. Get Your Act Together, written by Fandango on his fivedotoh.com website, is one more well of inspiration to me. In this post, I follow along and add my voice to other word prompts where I’m happy to participate.

At play today are these gems: Your Daily Word Prompt (moxie), The Daily Spur (wonderful), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (whimsical), MMA Storytime (altitude), Ragtag Daily Prompt (contest), and Word of the Day Challenge (optional).

Fandango gave me the idea of doing flashbacks of old posts. What a stellar idea! Thank you kindly, Fandango. You rock. I invite you, my readers, to click on any and all the word links(on the poem) that will take you to the sites I honor today. Thank you, all.

The prose I present is of recycled words of an essay published on my blog a year ago– a post that attracted but ONE reader. Can’t Wait for Life To Return To The Way It Was. So if you find yourself with extra time in your hands, please click on the link to read the original post. Much obliged.

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I’m a simple woman who dares to see the beauty in ordinary. I’d love to connect with you and like pen pals, I want something beautiful to blossom between us. Will you join me? Selma is my middle name. Its meaning—peaceful, complete, are euphoric affirmations I like to think of myself as having. They compliment the joy I feel when I write. I sincerely hope you decide to join me on my writing journey. I Wish You Miracles.

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