Little Whispers

Attention

An account created
On a platform not intended
To feed upon an ego so famished
Initial best intentions
Slowly dragged into the mentions
Person that you were has since vanished
Endless filtered photos
Check-in everywhere you go to
To show us all a life so positive
Manipulating images
Manufacturing visages
Because that's all you really have to give
If I wanted the attention
I would make it my intention
To introduce myself so dramatically
Instead I seek connection
Acceptance, not rejection
Which I gain hidden within anonymity
Friend Requests and Follows
All the bullshit they all swallow
Just to be part of a network all so fake
Fluttering eyelashes
Modelling shirts in their stashes
Seeking all the adoration they can take
Likes and hearts and retweets
Shout-outs make your heart beat
As you're virtually a flavour of the day
Like a drug addiction
Craving the affection
Start to destroy anything in your way
Alienated families, disillusioned friends
Quoting love to strangers, a means to an end
Toying with the masses all the time
Flirting in high quantity
Diminishing the quality
Just to read that they all think you're fine
Complicit in your mission
To create the perfect vision
For a plethora of reasons, to us unknown
Cause the controversy
No politeness or courtesy
Sell the fight you 'innocently' disown
Contrived in all your posts
Pompous prideful boasts
For interaction you so desperately crave
You think you really matter
Because of superficial chatter
What you are my dear, is perversely depraved
In your mirrors and your smoke
Your life is a pathetic joke
As you are hailed in such a high esteem
But you still sleep all alone
Nothing to hold, just your phone
One day the unheard will be redeemed