Google Earth

Upon a Google Earth, I roam.
I travel but never leave home.
My spirit virtually strays
round pixel streets and alley ways.

 

Like a modern Phileas Fogg,
my adventures could fill a blog.
I round the World in 80 Clicks;
my travelling bag, a memory stick.

 

I've been as far as Timbuktu
where simulated Natives threw
their spears at me but thankfully
they were not real, only 3-D.

 

And yet nothing can take the place
of returning from Cyberspace,
turning a knob, opening a door
and seeing the real Earth once more.