The World in a Mirror
Harper I.
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I wrote this poem during school as I watched all my fellow classmates staring at their phones, waiting for the bell to ring. I’ve thought a lot about how impactful access to social media is to my generation, and nearing the end of the poem, I also started to think about how this issue has broadened to the rest of the world. I wrote the end thinking about my late nights in bed when I would lay under my covers with my phone in the “rotate lock” position. I used to doom scroll because it was one of the only things that helped me destress. I began with the term “sometimes,” to illustrate how easy it is to get comfortable with these routines. And those times when the screen “goes dark” and loads for half a second, I see myself in the reflection of the screen, and I’m confronted with myself. This poem is about losing my sense of self.
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Creativity means a new way of looking at things.
