Arrow Rock Literary Journal

Remember When?

Brandon Evans

Looking at a version of life

Through the lens of a cell phone screen

She envies all the things she is missing

Without ever seeing anything

Always busy viewing and judging

She spends her youth at the price of peace

A faint blue tinged light has left her precious face

With tan lines and age marks for social media’s sake

Where has my little girl gone?

The one who cared about the simple and the sweet

She always feels so distant in conversations

Conversing solely in thumb speech

There is a loss of interaction

Even though more connected we’ve never been

I miss my little girl so much

I post a picture to say “Remember When?”