Remembering back to my days as a neophyte

Attracted as I was to the gloss of the neon light

It seems like only the day before yesterday

When I learned of video games and how to play

It’s a different world that we live in now

With everyone’s eyes fixed on games somehow

Muddling through without much of a conception

Of what life might have been in recent recollection

When collecting stamps or coins or photographs

Were the journey on our mentally mapped paths

Instead of collecting a higher highest score

And somehow I think the world is a bit more poor

For all these mental riches that are now available

And I for one remember of the more that we capable