Vision Loss

The “awesome” freaks of the world are killing me.

You know the kind, “Everything is awesome.”

“That was so awesome man”.

“Did you see his jump? It was awesome.”

“Totally awesome.”

“That show was awesome.”

Everything is “awesome”.

The word is so overused.

Like, “like”.

And, “so”.

“Awesome” has no meaning now.

You might as well say something was

so “paper.”

Or “Bookshelf.”

Or “Envelope.”

“That was so envelope.”

“Yeah, totally bookshelf.”

Nothing has meaning anymore when everything is

“awesome.”

Brilliant and average walk hand in hand

along the same street of mediocrity

with neither being singled out. 

But there is a difference.

I wonder about the “awesome” people

of this world.

Have they lost all perspective?

Or are they simply so superficial

they are incapable of really feeling anything?

Can they no longer discern

when they are experiencing an event that is worthy of a deep response 

versus something fleeting and insignificant?

“Did you see that pigeon poop?” “It was –“

Yes.

Totally.

I wonder what kind of world we will have

when our society is incapable of recognizing

what truly is 

"awesome."