Lagumbay.com Reflections on Love, Rage, and Fear

No, this was my space –
a place for the unpopular, uncool, outcasts.
This was a sacred place of solitude,
a space of information
interesting to myself and a few others.

We were shunned as geeks, called nerds,
picked on for playing video games,
mocked for spending our free time
in front of a computer.
You were so proud that you had lives.

Now look at you with your Halo and Madden
All cool and popular with your iPods
and that teeny tiny knowledge you proudly
call computer literacy.
No, this was my space.

Instead of being with all of you,
I chose this space. I belonged.
I expressed myself to peers who understood
because they too wanted nothing to do with you
and none of you were here.

Now here you are, shallow as ever,
invading my space with your social life,
crying about how nobody understands you
while still picking on the geeks and nerds.
You can go to hell.

Here you are with your OMGs and LOLs,
all-caps and your AOL. You talk hardware
’cause you’re a gamer, which is suddenly acceptable.
You double click on something and call it hacking.
You bastardize my space and call it your own.

Yes, I am bitter and I can’t expect you to understand –
you’re much too dense for something like this
but if you’re so damn cool, so damn popular
then why do you still feel so empty?
What are you doing in my space?