The cost

The world has been changing
True connections are now lost
What we feel is connection
Is our humanity tossed
Tossed aside for validating likes
By people we don't know
Neighbors are strangers, communities lost
By the seeds we're taught to sow
Narcissism rules and abuse flows
Like a river of fuel to humanity on fire
No one cares when others suffer
If they can still get what they desire
Exchange your soul for instant fame
Give your rest to technology's glow
The only thing that matters now
Are the number of viewers to your show
Murders, corruption, suffering...
They're just headlines on the news
They're things to be ignored because
Only tik tok gets the views
Right and wrong are blurry now
And too many lines have been crossed
How do we recover in this nation
Where our humanity was the cost?