Reliance - Poem

Welcome to social media,
Where likes have become a currency,
More likes, more success, more money.

The elite stay in the penthouses
Built upon a foundation of filters,
Held up by beams of likes, egotism and narcissism.

In the gutters,
Those without the look fail
To even reach numbered status,
And are instead plagued
With the embarrassment of named followers.
Less personal has become more successful.

Selfies, statuses, updates.
Every moment of every life,
Recorded for all to see.
Time is dying, moments are passing.
Apps live and remember for us.

Living life through a screen,
Experiencing precious moments in binary,
Falsifying reality to experience "real life"

Those who don't conform don't belong,
We are becoming robots of the web,
The black widow feeding off our souls.
Our addiction fuels hers,
An endless cycle,
Likely to end in destruction.

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