The World Today

3:30 PM

I see these kids

Some few years younger than me

Some a decade more

Their fingers on a window of façade

Their eyes fixated on a box of colours

I see these Legos

Scattered on the floor

Scattered like my soul

They yearn to be played with again

They yearn to be built and put together

I see these Hot Wheels

The tracks inside a storage room

The cars inside a cardboard box

Why aren't they racing anymore?

Why aren't they popular anymore?

I see these Barbie dolls

Pink dresses torn and thrown

Pink shoe missing its pair

Where did their owners go?

Where did their doll houses go?

I see these kids

Asking their parents for gadgets

Asking their parents for WiFi

They don't play with toys anymore

They don't ask for toys anymore

I see my childhood

Walking off the stage I adored

Walking off the stage of my life

Lowering their curtain of glory

Lowering the happiness it gave me

I pity these kids

They won't know what 

childhood

is really like

because they are busy

with technology

and not with the fresh air

outside

and not with the real world

outside.