No reverie or dream survives intact

From screen to scream the mind receives impacts
A murder or a rape or Trump’s strange tweets.
No reverie or dream survives intact

So we enjoy the hit and torture wracked?
At any hour excitement will one greet
From screen to scream the mind receives impact

And into human minds this dross is packed;
It leaves no space for silence or retreat
No reverie or dream survives intact

We will no longer suffer from our lacks
The enemy, old boredom, we defeat
From screen to scream the mind receives impact

Will one day the screen take a great crack
We will see that nothing dwells beneath
No reverie or dream survives intact

Allow us all to suffer life’s own griefs
Before we fall to earth like old brown leaves
From screen to scream our heart with pain contracts
No reverie or dream survives intact