Last night I sat in the park watching the people wander round and round
When what to my wondering eyes should appear but a swarm of cell phone zombies!

The newest trend of modern man walking about with cell phone in hand
eyes glues to a one inch screen while the world around them passes unseen

Thumbs and fingers numb and flittery texting and massaging in useless literacy
sexy teens and the balding aged all glassy gazed mired in their muck and cages

I thought they would snap out of it when the fireworks popped loudly
I assumed they would look skyward to see the blooming starbursts proudly
filling the night
but that was not to be the sight

Camera phones held up to heaven, taking video and screenshots, to savor later instead
I looked and listened at my own little self and settled upon the thought, I sit on a shelf
using eyes and ears for here and now instead of recording for posterity the powerful show

After it was all over the cell phone zombies made a slow parade
towards the forrest of automobiles where they sat and they waited
and waited and waited and waited going nowhere, forgetting that somewhere
God had given them grass and trees and stars to see...

I am grateful that I am not a cell phone zombie... yet... but I fear the disease is contagious...

Are you surrounded by cell phone zombies?