INFORMATION OVERLOAD

It's incessant and it's mindless 

And it's everywhere I go

Streaming madness, like a river

In a neverending flow

The links are exponential 

Russian nesting doll abyss 

Have we swapped our love and romance 

For cheap pornographic bliss? 

E-facts aren't truth or wisdom

They're just data served to you   

We now process information  

Sponsored news that's owned by few 

Reams of jackass clips and moments

Punctuate dull emptiness

In this age of instant access 

Joy just fails to coalesce 

We're sold hermetic voyeurism

For our safety's what we hear 

Yet the guardians of freedom 

Are the architects of fear 

Each cyber business platform

Is more efficient than the last

So where does all the time go 

That we surely have amassed? 

No, it's sucked back via portals

Into cybernetic jail

So back online and browsing 

Making sure we do not fail 

Verbal vomit via Twitter 

Rabid rants for what they're worth  

Like some impotent opinions

May make a change to planet Earth 

The barrage overwhelms me 

Until it stirs my inner voice 

Then I hear my spirit saying 

I should make another choice.