@orcndwarf.eth
Touch Leaves
Do we remember trees?
The thrill of screens -
The scrolling cast of
Characters in greens
And blues and scarlets
Flash and key our
Focus away from leaves.
Or needles. Or the
Hard-grown, textured bark
And bit of anything
Without a pixel count.
Should we neglect the veined
Miracle of Photosynthetic
Energies from light, the very
Substance of our bodies?
Even as our potted plants
Disintegrate on the sill,
Sans water, sacrificed for our
Synthetic, gigabit/day flow?
That flow will not feed us.
Will not thrive our people.
Will wall us off from
Folk and Foliage until, while
Dark and blue-cast shadows
Cross our faces, we
Wither down to bone.