The Internet Poem by Gita Ashok

The Internet
is a great revolution.
Yet a great cause
of tremendous confusion.

Should I study?
Should I work?
Should I play?
Or simply online should I stay?

Everyone, everything
and every place:
all just a mouse click away!
Well, the Internet is surely here to stay.

It makes you smile,
it makes you laugh,
it makes you cry,
it makes you sometimes want to pry.

While the snail mail
takes several days,
the Internet offers
a number of cool ways.

At home, at work,
at school, at the airport,
we all stay with the Internet.
We do know why it’s still the best bet.

With the Internet
comes so much information explosion
that it often feels like
you’re searching in a vast, never-ending ocean.

Internet, Oh Internet!
You form bonds and break ties
easily all over the world.
There must be a million tales yet untold.

The Internet
never fails to keep me
busy as a bee.
I fear someday I shouldn’t become a zombie.

Internet, Oh Internet!
You give us a whole new world
for the meek and uninitiated
as well as for the robust and bold.

Internet, Oh Internet!
I plead with thee sincerely -
tell us how we can
live here more peacefully.

04 June 2010
9 am