Ting, goes the notification,
Informing the world what new fashion atrocity was committed by a Kadarshian at the Met Gala.
Boom, goes the bomb,
Informing the world the crimes against humanity committed by Netanyahu.
Yet which one garners public sympathy? Which one garners the likes? And which one garners enraged people protesting against such heinous acts?
If your answer was the latter, then you are wrong, my friend.
For in this digital age we care more about billionaires, celebrities and influencers,
Than we do about the starving, desolate and refugees.
Watching insta teen queens give us a house tour of their million dollar mansions,
While the streets are filled with cries of the homeless.
The multiple shopping hauls posted by a ten year old Sephora kid,
While thousands die from starvation every month.
What about them?
We cry,
Let them eat likes.
The most you do is share those AI-generated images about "political issues" that you couldn't care less about,
Or face the social guillotine.
Ignorance is bliss, they say.
But when that line of bliss bleeds into indifference,
We all become the new age Marie Antoinettes.
A/N: this isn't my best work, I just wrote this on my way home from school after attending a slam poetry competition on the same topic.
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just random poems i wrote :)
Poetrya bunch of poems i wrote whenever i was bored. all of these are original pieces by me. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STEAL/COPY MY WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION. thanks, enjoi <3 ps- i'll keep on updating this everytime i write a poem that i feel is worth b...
