Today's prompt asked us to showcase a social issue that is important to us. My observation of too many preoccupied parents missing their opportunity to communicate with their kids is the catalyst for this poem.
Here I Am
Shut the damn phone
Mom-my
Hang up and drive
Dad-dy
Talk to me
How was
my day
Scary, humiliating
What
did I learn
Meanness rules
Do I
have homework
A bully took it
How is
my friend
Miserable, too
Talk to me
Look at me
Show me you know
I am here
Shut the damn phone
