The sea of emptiness → Poem by mmuniz

I submerge myself in the words that I read,

While I look for clues

in the maze that is the story I seek.

Confused on how to react when everything seems just fine,

Books are slowly drifting away,

to a sea of emptiness and forgetting,

We are sinking too,

but are too naïve to notice,

Technology is the boat that keeps us afloat,

But It can only save a few

from this slowly drowning of lack of knowledge.

I stand in the shadows,

in the dark hiding from the sun,

With a book in my hands that I’m not afraid to read.

While machines are taking over and trying to take it from me,

They say a click is all I need to understand the meaning,

But I rather read my book

and find my own story that hides inside the printed words.

The sea of emptiness