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[POEM] Disconnected Watch

My watch is disconnected from my phone. It's a pretty nice watch, even if it's pretty old and broken. It doesn't connect anymore, the screen is cracked, but it's still a part of me. I feel naked without it. I've worn it almost every day for close to a decade now, and it kinda shows. Had to replace the strap from wear 3 or 4 times now.

When I bought it, it was super useful. It could display text messages so I could read messages from my girlfriend at the time while I was at work and couldn't pull out my phone, which was nice. I had a very active job so that step counter was very useful. I took care of seizure patients so being able to use its stopwatch function just by clicking a single button on the side was incredibly useful.

But then I got a new job so I don't use the stopwatch anymore.

And my new job is far less active so the step counter isn't really much use either.

And I talk to those I love elsewhere so the only texts I get are spam, making the notifications pretty useless.

Nowadays it's kinda just a watch and that's it. And that's fine, it's still special to me and important. I don't need it to keep having those things I have no use for, just for it to be special to me.

But recently the app it connects to got updated, and I can't connect it to my phone anymore. That's fine, I wasn't use any of those features anyway.

Except... It has an alarm set, from when I worked day shift. It's kind of annoying actually. Goes off at completely the wrong time for me now. Would be nice to change that but... You can only do that through the app. And my watch doesn't connect to my phone anymore.

So now every day I get a reminder of how much things have changed over the past decade. A reminder of how much this watch means to me, but also how much it's a relic of my past and this one flaw, so tiny, will keep coming back up, for as long as I keep this watch.

How many times is it going to happen until I can't keep putting up with this old broken watch anymore?