Am I living in a Sci-Fi Film?

Who would have thought the world could turn out the way it has? On a positive note I was inspired to express some feelings in poetic verse.

AM I LIVING IN A SCI-FI FILM? ©

Am I living in a sci-fi film?
And is it only me
Thinking
‘Can this really be reality?’
Surely this surreality
Is not how it’s meant to be.

You see Lockdown brought it home to me.
The freedoms we bemoaned
Feeling more and more controlled.
Things beyond our own control.

And now it seems we are even more guided and driven
By algorithms and answer phones.
A future of hybrid hive minds, robotics, and automation.

How I miss the human touch.
An authentic human that listens and talks in the moment.
Whereas this matrix
Can play tricks.
And as such,
Much as I know it’s in my imagination.
I ask myself if this lull,
This dullness
Is a sign.

Is something momentous or calamitous about to happen?

News and newscasters
Reporting disasters.
Scaremongering headlines
Faster and faster.

Are you living in a sci-fi film?

Press Pause!
Ask – what can we do to change what sometimes
Somehow seems inevitable?
Embrace some of the good in progress.
Then…

Press Edit!
It’s editable.
Discard the dross.
Keep the best bits
For the final cut.

We have a right to determine how this story goes…

©Julie Charlesworth, 2025

by Dr Julie Charlesworth 03/02/25

Here’s the Poem in postcard form:
SciFi Film Poem Card