Important Not (2016 April PAD - Day 28)

Important Not

There’s too much trash talk going round

over wires, underground,

on the airwaves, cell, TV –

none of this feels right to me.

(Seems everyone’s embroiled

in someone else’s coil.)

Everything is so fast-paced –

cut and pasted –

and in our haste

(to spread the word)

the meaning’s lost,

the message wasted.

I think, he thinks, she thinks.

Far too many of these thinks

are totally ungrounded:

fabricated factoids,  information tangled

just to manufacture fear

while trust is wholly mangled.

It’s so easy to get snared

inside the drama of the day

the games that people play

the he said, she said,

I heard they said

hearsay.

Sometimes, peace of mind requires

you jettison technology

rely on your own biology

to avoid all further ravage.

Guts and gray matter’s all you need.

The rest is extraneous baggage.

PSC / 2016

Penned for Day 28 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: "Important (blank)"

 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-28