A Digital Dream

Ericka Cote is a Secondary 5 student at Alexander Galt Regional High School. She won the cycle two Earle Birney Award for Excellence in Poetry at the inaugural Galt Creative Awards.

In a world of code, where signals stream,

Today's generation, a digital dream.

Thumbs dance on screens with effortless grace,

Navigating life in a virtual space.

Selfies and filters, identity spun,

In pixels and bytes, a tale is begun.

Sharing their stories in snippets and bytes,

Embracing the day and the neon nights.

But amidst the hashtags and status updates,

Realities blend, and the line dissipates.

A generation connected, yet sometimes alone,

In a web of Wi-Fi, a culture of its own.

Yet, in every heart, a human thread,

Longing for love, in words left unsaid.