Time Capsule by Richard Schnap

She had it all, wireless smart phone,

Electric car with GPS tracking, several

Hundred friends on her Facebook page,

Artificially sweetened energy drinks, thousands

Of MP3 downloads and a high-definition

Flat-screen TV programmed to automatically

Record her favorite reality shows while she slept.

But in her dreams she stood in the heart

Of an abandoned city watching the ghosts

Of old lovers pass by as if they no longer

Knew her, as if they weren’t real, strangers

On a road that had no beginning or end,

Like a film she once saw a long time ago

That made her cry but didn’t anymore.

Richard Schnap is a poet, songwriter and collagist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems have most recently appeared locally, nationally and overseas in a variety of print and online publications.