demonized

What happens when technology consumes her soul? When the world gets lost, relationships fade, when the reality sets in that this is not her life? That her mindset is not her own and that she has stopped being herself? Will it be too late? Will the demon inside of us have already consumed her before she found the will to power down?

It won't happen like the flip of a switch, but it will happen to her. As her eyes glue onto another show and byte by byte, her DNA seems to alter from who she was to what she will become. She may forget the words to her favorite song. She may forget whole memories in her life and will develop blurry edges on reality. Her cooking abilities will deteriorate, her romantic dinners will be in front of Youtube. Even her thoughts will stop being her own. 

And is it really so bad? Why should she be herself when she can be one and the same as the masses. Another extension of the technological arm. She can meld with the group and be just like the rest. Give up dreams, give up direction, give up the drive that always got her somewhere new. Give up creating and breaking and allow failure to define her. For if it defines her, it defines them too and at least she isn't alone. 

But does she really want to forget where that small town girl went or why a cookie on a stick was important to her? Will she wake up one day and want to recreate herself from the soup eating, flesh consuming monster that sits in her own hand, that answers every question she can type and begs for her time allowing her to do... and be... nothing. Will she be able to bounce back from the demons that lay in the palm of her hand, to the girl who won't stop believin'? Or will she be too far gone to even care if that girl exists.