Digital love: Digital grief
If I send you an emoji
Will you know exactly
How I feel?
Will you truly know
That love is real?
Or, if I send you
A coffin-shaped nail
Will you wail and gnash
Your teeth?
Will you experience
A kind of grief?
Or, truly, truly,
Will you not
Give a flying toss?
Loss, in all its peculiar manifestations,
Unites people of all races, classes and denominations,
We say, "I am at a loss," and we mean it.
It takes a life time to learn
How to let go and to hold on,
Like a duck with her ducklings,
Like a goose with her goslings,
Like a swan.
We learn to float in that remote-space
Between grief and love
And that is enough for me
So fuck all that emotionless
Emoji technology.
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 29th Jan 2020 22:10
There was never a demand for emojis. But some bright spark somewhere had a bathtub moment and invented them. And when they are out there and available they create their own demand. If I see text peppered with emojis I can't be bothered to pick my way through it.