The screen won’t ever take you away

When you leave your laptop and walk down the street, remember that:

There will always be sound (ahhh, cahhh, fuhhhh behind teeth)
There will always be colour (blue sky, green tree, grey road)
There will always be air (to breathe in and sway with your hands)
There will always be gravity (on the road and nowhere else)

So next time you feel so anxious that you can hardly unlock the door,
remember that the world holds your feet
and that laptop with its one little wire hair
is held by you, totally able to just fall (or drop) into the wastebin
as you walk.

Balding square,
pixel eyes don’t cry.

While, the road,
(your flesh)
colours for the
world we actually feel.

Rosie Elizabeth, who publishes under the pen name Elizabeth Seven, is a poet based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Originally from the UK, she studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She is the creator of Hey Heart Poetry, a trilingual spoken word event and podcast. Her work is published or forthcoming in The New Absurdist, Bardics Anonymous, Mouthful of Salt, BarBar Literary Magazine, Sunday Mornings at the River, Snowflake Magazine and The Wells Street Journal.