PSA- Loneliness
Public Announcement Challenge Entry
Attention all, a hush has spread across the world
its cause identified as screens that never sleep
Your devices glow like watchful eyes beside your bed
and the silence they create grows deep
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Reports confirm constant scrolling drains the day
though signals stay strong and everything seems fine
Connections waver, thinning out along the way
until the heart and soul walk a lonely line
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Effective now, all citizens are urged to leave their rooms
to walk outside where unfiltered breezes roam
Ride bicycles without a single ping or buzz
let the nature around you call you back home
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Dinner parties are recommended weekly by the Board
with phones surrendered to a drawer for safekeeping
Conversations may feel awkward at the start
but warmth returns while laughter’s leaping
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If hearing someone’s real voice startles you at first
stand steady as the moment passes by
This is a normal symptom of prolonged device exposure
and it fades away the more you try
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Remember, parks remain available for human use
their pathways built for footsteps, not social media feeds
The city still welcomes your presence in its streets
and nature has something waiting to fulfill your needs
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This concludes the formal notice filed today
though one unofficial line must still be read
loneliness thrives not from lack of connection
but from living through a screen instead
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Sara Wilson
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Dream Log #9
This was a dream from last which I think was triggered by bumping into somebody I used to work with. She has retired from the care home I used to work with. I feel a bit too exhausted to try and make this short dream to make it over the 600 word count requirement from Vocal, so I will convert it into a poem so it will will automatically pass the filter and I feel like writing a poem because the imagery felt nostalgic and daunting at the same time.
By Chloe Gilholyabout 4 hours ago in Poets
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I felt this on a personal level. Your PSA is poetic and necessary.
This a slam dunk Sara! Bravo! 💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
So well said Sara. Can't be said enough...we are breeding the loneliest generation - if only they knew it. Best of luck/
My favourite announcement thus far!
💖The cadence of this announcement was impeccable. As I moved through the internal rhythm, I was struck by the visceral way the bicycle gears sounded in my ear, perfectly capturing the absence of a digital 'ping' or 'buzz'. 💖You successfully made the outdoor world seem more enthralling than our screens. The pathways built for footsteps were brilliant; it’s as if the physical world has become alien to us. Placing that side-by-side with social media highlights the chasm between reality and the virtual.
Devices glowing like watchful eyes is a creepy image, and scarily accurate! Great work!
Woah. This is beautiful and very important. Sara, this should place and if it doesn't we riot. I mean, you don't need to. I'll riot enough fir both of us Well done. Love the sentiment and the crafting.
This is a great announcement. I especially like the note at the end!😊💗💖
I felt this one in every fiber of my being! Brilliant, on point & inspiring! This is a Winner! Get it gurl! 🫶🏾💕💪🏾
Lover it, Sara. We have all become slaves to the mobile phone and technology. All the pastimes that mattered seem to have disappeared.
"If hearing someone’s real voice startles you at first" Omgggg, of we ever reach this stage, we're a lost cause. Loved your poem!