Scrolling

I’m one of those people,

That won’t stop scrolling.

Yet I senselesly double tap

The screen.

When it says that phones are bad.

That we need to talk 

Face 

To 

Face

That phones can do so many awful things.

I need to get off.

But I don’t.

And it seems I’m not the only one.

Because I see you nodding your head,

And saying,

I agree. 

Phones are bad.

But if that’s true, 

Why are we constantly on them?

Phones are bad.

I know that.

And yet,

I still keep

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I say I’m aware 

Of the harm 

That phones bring.

Yet,

I scroll

And scroll

And I fall deeper

Into a rabbit hole

That is the

Definition

Of what I hate.

Of what I double tapped 

The screen for in the first place.

I try so desperately 

To stop.

To tell myself,

I say out loud,

Stop. This is wrong.

But I don’t stop.

I continue, 

To do the very thing 

I say I hate.

And so do you.

But at least-

We’re in this together.