Social Media

Social media the friend at my sidePlacing the world in a container made perfect to fit in the palm of my handSeduced to write to you all my joy and the painCompelled to feeling angry at the chaos that ices the pathLooking to you for comfort and validationCrying out my loneliness for one soul to relateHolding this solid fleshTo dream perhapsComparing the laughs that dominate my wall of theoretical connectionPosting the wisdom of the not so important leadersWatching life pass before my very hands, Striking the keys with all caps desperationTenderness felt with every like soothing the temporary satisfaction of recognitionIgnoring the truth behind the pocket of hell yes and word upSizing up each impulse put before me to slide under the radarWishing for the one to hold my essence in fearless permissionLocked away in the corner stilted and bondedCleverly packaged in 140 characters of my many facesI choose which to reveal to you todayArguing my point backed up by convictionStepping up to nothingDistracted by the carefree youngster candid in your photoForcing a smile to a celebration of yet another blustery act of self-empowermentKudos to the one who said it like thatFight the powerStand tallWalk on sisterAnd other easy ways I support your causeShowing up to nothing and requiring all of me to listenQuizzed by the selection of reality that slips beyond the noiseWhispering needs to a soft crowd of diligent angelsWorking hard to break the boardAgainst the grain of timeless illusionSitting pretty next to fluffy cats and dancing dogsPicked ripe for the grasping