before, there were gears.
the tick-tock clocks,
pocket watches handsomely gifted and handsomely worn,
winding contraptions dangerous and deadly
full of teeth that ground you into dust
(and yet, they were beautiful)
now, there is
the echo.
of a thousand different things,
trinkets big and small, useful and useless
currents of what was once godly domain
harnessed and leashed like unruly wolves
the sound of a heartbeat unlike our own
but of our own making,
filling the sky in shades of gold.
The Junction Journal 
Hi!
This post really stood out to me because I’m pretty sure it was meant to highlight the rapid growth of technology over the past 100 years or so, and I think that’s a really interesting topic and maybe even one that a lot of people out there might disapprove of. In the first part of the post, you talk about how something like pocket watches used to be a luxury and were given as gifts, although they were simple. I liked how you went from that to then going on about how now there are so many different complicated pieces of technology out there today that aren’t uncommon to anyone, emphasizing the rapid growth of technology. I think a good example is the iPhone. We have access to the entire world on such a little device that we can do almost anything on. And the craziest part is that it’s not even a rare item! Almost everyone has one. Pocket watches were looked at as luxury and the things we have now, that are so much more complicated, have just become regular parts of our daily lives. I also liked how you said it has a heartbeat, like we created a living thing because there are such wondrous items out there. I also noticed how, when talking about the pocket watches, you called the gears dangerous, yet the pocket watch itself is beautiful and when talking about the technology we have today, you say they were made from “godly domain” and are now thrown out there like “unruly wolves”. I think that maybe there, you were trying to say that the technology we have today can sometimes be harmful to us, like spending too much time on social media. The quote that stood out to me the most is, “currents of what was once godly domain, harnessed and leashed like unruly wolves” because I think it’s trying to show that we have created things based off of stuff that was seen as luxurious and simple into things that have taken over our daily lives and are so much bigger.
Apologies if some of my interpretations aren’t what you intended, but I think it’s an interesting piece nonetheless!
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