Nanoseconds

Nanoseconds.

This is the age
of complexity
Machines, faster than mind or body.
Technology
that outstrips our humanity.

Information
at our fingertips
data flooding like a torrent
through the thin, fragile capillaries
of our brains and muscles
and nerves

We build tall
think fast,
multi task,
split atoms
strive for perfection;
the most,
best,
first.

We are giants
by virtue of the speed
of our minds
our thumbs,
the cloud
and fiber optics.

Omnipotent fingers
on the pulse of
the grid,
national defense,
the world wide web

We are gods of time and distance,
precision, circuitry, the micro chip

And are reminded of our humanity
with the jolt
of the oncoming truck
as we look up from a text.
on the perfect,
powerful,
tiny
computer of our phone.