IDK why I can’t talk to my daughter...
I feel AWOL from her teenage life...
Our relationship has become all about texting...
I’m having the same problem with my wife...

So I was looking at my daughter’s?...
To understand what’s going on in her head...
But all I could find was gibberish...
In a text, this is all it said...

BF: OMG, you’re a PYT...
Daughter: IDK, I have ADD, so just KISS...
BF: IRL, you’re so PHAT...
Daughter: LOL, that’s a BEG...
BF: BTW, I❤️U in OT...
Daughter: OK, TTYL, but NTS...

I don’t want to be a nosy father...
As I pride myself for being a ? dad...
But this lack of personal communications...
Is making me rather sad...

I miss the hugs and kisses...
From my children, and especially my wife...
Instead of real, deep discussions,
I get nothing more than?strife...

Wife: Can you make BLTs and do it ASAP! I’ll be LFD tonight. BBL! ?
Me: But when will you be home? I can’t cook ?! It’ll turn out FUBAR!
Wife: ? IDK, BBIAB, TTYL...✌?
Me: But I’m hungry! ?
Wife: LOL! OMG, you’re so DOA! Just DIY... BRB! ???

So I’m home by myself for dinner...
And I’m stuck here all alone...
My stomach is growling from hunger...
And I got nothing but this old?...

We use to be a very close family...
Having conversations at dinner, as we should...
But all this technology is killing us...
Simpler times are gone, in all likelihood...

© 2020 Jeffrey Pipes Guice