Decisions
by rayn Monday, Oct 20 2014, 4:16am
international / poetry / post

shall i write today
along the jagged edge
of prevailing international
affairs
or should i take the coastal track
and let it all go?

a rhetorical question as i inhale
the liquid sea and wrap a warm sky
brushed with the deep ochre of evening
around my being

it always puzzles me that so few
of the six million inhabitants
utilise this coastal track
which winds, climbs and descends
its way from Bondi to Coogee --
one of Sydney’s treasures

but it’s the digital age,
need i enquire?

it seems that children developing
in a digital environment are entrapped by it,
research already indicates that the ‘wiring’
of childrens’ brains alters according to the
amount of exposure to digital stimuli

so living for them without a smart-phone
becomes a punitive, almost tortuous
measure, so enslaved are the progeny
of the digital age

but why complain, no crowds or bustle
to contend with?
the solitude is what makes it, as nothing
interrupts or interferes with the coastal expanse
and the play of sky, sea
and me