Sonnet 82: On Youth

All the youth of today want is their ‘I’ phone: Communicate through social media, Just sitting in their room all alone Unknown friends acting all the seedier. With very few real friends they are an island Drifting through the day missing nature’s feast They wear their loneliness like a garland They are under the power of the beast. So oblivious to the written word Educationally barren, what a waste And never hearing the song of a bird They lack life’s experience and have no taste. Oh, what does the future hold for our youth? Will they grow up and learn of nature’s truth.