Slowly Morphing.! Poem by guy lipmore

Whether walking or waiting,
Sitting, eating or standing.
They're all are texting and gaming,
Reading, or checking.
Concentrating, pressing,
Touch-screen dragging.
Mostly 'finger' talking,
Voiceless phone conversing,
Emotionless, conversations,
Muted communications.

Rolling fingers and thumb,
Is how the 'talking' is done.
No need for full spelling.!
Kind of abbreviations are the 'new' writing.
That's another aspect of the language,
Written word continually suffers damage.
Text 'speak' the dictionary, it's entering,
Adding, enriching or further eroding.!
Detrimental to the vocabulary,
Undermining standards of literacy.

Expression not required nor tongues,
Subtly converting us not to use our lungs.!
Much like the television of decades and today,
Slowly sucking the art of conversation away.
Are we gradually 'interfacing' with the machines, ?
Television, computer, I. Pad and phone screens.
Progress, change, maybe just evolution.,
Whatever, Is it sub conscience collusion.?
Is it coincidence or by some shadowy design,
Incremental subversion with techniques sublime.!
Increasingly and unwittingly endorsing,
That we are slowly but surely 'morphing'?

21/11/12