A Million Wishes

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Once upon a time, when

We were just a child ,

Life used to be simple

But imaginations ran wild .

Once in a year, then ,

On my birth day,

Only a handful of friends

Would ever care to say ,

"Wish u a happy bday ! "

They were only a handful

They were really very few ,

They were only those ,

Whom I very well knew.

Never did I bother then,

To keep a count of them.

It was never a ladder

For rising to instant fame !

What mattered to me most

Was how I spent my day .

Encircled by my small group,

In the centre , happy and gay.

Then, at night, as I lay in bed,

Content and full of joy .

The day carved out a sweet memory

For me , forever to enjoy .

But now I am all grown up

And live in the digital age.

Life remains forever encircled

By Twitter , WhatsApp and FB page.

The world has turned truly

Into one huge global village

Virtual reality is now the real thing

And social media such a rage .

More people remember my bday now,

Than they ever did in the past .

They all remember to wish me,

And I have such a "virtual" blast .

Throught the day I keep on checking ,

The count of wishes and like.

And everytime I see it rising

I get a digital spike .

Then in the night, as I lie in bed

And reflect upon the day .

Like in the past I try to carve out

A memory for me to take away .

Only then I realise , to my horror

There is nothing atall to take .

All I have got are wishes and like

And a lot of them could be fake.

There were no friends to play along

No one to call my own .

The entire day simply passed away

With me, staring at my fone.

Now, I would trade, a million likes

On any given day .

Just to get my "real" friends back

To hold my hand and stay.

But Alas ! all I get are smiling faces ,

Staring through the FB page ,

Binding us and enslaving us,

Forever ,in the Digital Cage .