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*Pages stained blank,
pens dried untouched
Forgot to feel, just watched.*
*Consumed by the light,
forgot all the shades,
Staring at the traffic;
as the rainbow fades.*
*So fixed on all the trends,
All of these so-called online friends;
Didn't have time to spare,
Time to write, time to care.*
*Inconsistent feelings,
headaches, Blurred out vision,
a world of fakes!*
*Yet, I worshiped that,
I tried to be that;
I needed makeup,
can't be ugly, can't be fat,
I just need to be those and that!*
*In my pictures, an auction of likes,
just be the doll!
I need to look perfect,
happy and okay,
Need to get new trends,
old ones don't stay.*
*I need to take pictures all the time;
Act dumb, act smart,
acting is our favorite art!
Why do I need to be enslaved,
just to be happy?*
*Well, even this 'happy' is arbitrary!*
*Why shorten soulful words
to a few random letters?
Why forget close ones
for a few almost-strangers?*
*Why need so much attention?
So much instant gratification?
Why need to go online
when we aren't even online?*
*Why forget to live sometimes,
yet still need to go 'live'?
Why forget the shelves of books,
poems unwritten, and colors alive?*
*Within a phone full of applications,
with no life?*
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With๐
@chrysanthemum
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