- a critic about the Swipe generation - by The Girl on the picture

Nowadays the definition of “like” has changed

Instead of a feeling with someone you dated

People check first if you have pictures sophisticated

The generation of Swipes

Has no understanding of Likes

Put your best clothes and prepare to go to the park

Your Tinder photoshoot is about to start

Imagine if smartphones no longer exist

And all social medias have been forbidden

Would you remember how to invite a girl out

Or would you be lonely at home like a baby kitten?

Do you know how to flirt without writing behind a screen?

Why don’t you go out and tell a girl: Hei, you are the woman of my dream!

We are living in superficial times

Women are full of make-up

Covering their beautiful eyes

Men going blind with nothing on their mind

Taking pictures on their bathroom mirror

Thinking they are our desired miracle

Hei, who do you want to impress?

An idiot by using your favorite dress?

A girl by showing how much you can put on the leg press?

Or yourself finding your own path?

I think people just forget

How beautiful is life without a ready google text

Identities are being lost

Online albums are replacing real thoughts

Save yourself out of this technologic prison

Or your journey here will have no real reason

I decided to expand my words and adventure myself with my thoughts in another language.

This is my first complete poem in English. I hope you like it.

When you look into your past

You may think about what lasted

You had dreams

But you might not have known their means

Where are you now?

Have you dreamed of that?

Did you get what you were looking at?

Or did you simply forget?

I believe that we are always where we are supposed to be

It could have been scary on the way until we got here

But can you imagine everything differently?

We can’t just travel to the past

How long do think it would last?

There may have been some errors that you would like to erase

But aren’t you proud of how many times did you have raised?

Maybe there were also a few regrets

But you know that you enjoyed some wonderful sunsets

In the journey of life you have the choice to make plans

And even though these plans might go wrong for a while

You can still choose to face them with a smile

Besides that

There is another fact

In life, every time you are in a different phase

Which you may not want to face

But it is just like the moon

It has to change, but it will return to the right place soon

Have you thought about the seasons?

Why would a tree have leaves in winter if it has no reasons?

Imagine if all answers to your questions were right?

Would that have solved all the problems in your life?

You don’t know when your time will come to an end

But you can chose on what and where you want to spend it

Everything that you have lived until this moment, just happened

So live your life knowing that Today was not planned in depth

Pauline Alves