HOPSCOTCH

 

HOPSCOTCH

Nowadays we can't  imagine hopscotch

A popular playground game

For evidently thousands of years

(Even Roman kids played a form of it)

To be a reason for great concern

Googling hopscotch however

I was surprised to learn

It was one of the games 

Not allowed by the Buddha

As it was a "cause for negligence"

Which says the more things change

The more they stay the same

We look at kids today

Playing video games

And we think 

So many hours in front of a screen

Isn't a good thing

But I'm sure in the future

They'll look back at kids playing 

Video games as something utterly benign

Compared to the AI games

Totally immersing the player

Where reality blends with fantasy

Or vice versa

Nobody able to distinguish

What's a game and what's not

Certainly they will be a "cause for negligence"

At least for a while