Social Media – Mama’s Mullings

  Polarity 
     or 
  Be Close
(May 23rd, 2021)

Come
I just want you
Whether healthy or sick
Stable or struggling
Rich or poor
Dark or fair
You
I just want you
I don’t care about
Left or Right
Conservative or Liberal
Belief or Unbelief
I just want you
To be close
To be human
To rub against our flaws and idiosyncrasies 
Without hatred
Because we’re all human
And being close is the antidote to this polarity
My instincts are to run away
Like a frightened deer
To cloister myself deep in the woods
But that only increases the divide
And cuts my heart apart
Come
Be close
Be human with me
And I will love you with all the flawed love I have to offer
Because I can
Because He did
Because He came close
Because He let His humanness rub against ours
And He loves us still with all the Perfect Love He has to offer
Come, He says
Be Close

(Feeling tired of the polarity, further aggravated by social media.)

 A Love Affair 
 (January 5th, 2014)

 Soft glow of evening light
 Children finally at rest
 Snuggled up on the couch
 With the one that I love best
 But first I must answer this
 And you must finish that
 Soon the evening has passed us by
 Because so-n-so wanted to chat
 A love affair with technology
 That keeps us far apart
 An interest in everyone else
 But our own fleshy, beating heart
 An idol of a sly degree
 One that comes between
 Paled faces by computer glow
 Blinded by alluring screens
 Minds always heavy
 With the constant arrays
 Of all the information
 To be found through our displays
 No time to sit and ponder
 Always Click! Click! Click!
 Never shutting down
 Nor contemplating the burning wick 
 So faithful we may be to each other
 And always the very best friends
 But we have a love affair with technology
 And it has got to end

(Both the image and the poem are exaggerations, but I certainly felt the angst with technology even 6 years ago, when this poem was written. I feel less so now, with better boundaries in place, but it does seem to be a never-ending battle of tweaking how and what and how much technology we open ourselves up to. Perhaps that’s just the reality of living in such a fast-paced, ever–changing world.)