Social Media
I met ten-thousand people today,
in a cold and fake, imaginary way.
I poured my heart into the stream,
to find a mirage of what may seem.
People electronically barely there
without the being to really care.
Forlornly I throw the troubled word
to settle so quiet as to be unheard.
Yet, I’ll wear the illusion of community
filled with unpeople I will never see,
tomorrow to howl again, into the deep,
like an ignored, unseen, unloved creep.
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Social media is like a shell with a fantasy on the outside and a sterile void inside.
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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