Poem: Atrocious

Lost in cycle 

we're spinning around.

Everything's surface -

can't feel the ground.

Too many words 

and too much sound.

We're living a circus 

on a merry go round.

Lost all control now -

We're spinning out. 

It's all too loud - 

ow!

.

.

.

Forgotten the feeling

of breathing the air -

without any reels 

kinda feels like gills.

How to make contact 

without signing a contract?

Privacy policy -

to sell all they see.

Nobody cares.

"No need to worry."

No predator stares -

more interested in pornography.

But you're theirs.

Selling you slowly...

Cause you never stop scrolling.

Always feel in a hurry

going nowhere.

Eyes burn blurry.

Everyone's trapped here -

in their own blue glare.

"Look somebody snapped!"

A societal genocide - 

Where cartoons tell kids, 

"No one cares - 

Happier if you died."  

The cartoons lied.

"Death feels like freedom.

Life a prison."

We pick up the poison

every second every day. 

We call it a game.

We hope for fame - 

or maybe connection.

Trying not to feel lame.

Plugged in all day.

Can't find our way.

In deepest addiction...

No methamphetamine - 

that risk is too tame.

We're all hooked on dopamine.

Not enough?

Get a diagnosis.

Can't beat the hypnosis!

Mental sickness 

gives a witness.

Diagnose us!

We want to feel less atrocious! 

So life won't roast us.

Responsibility too much.

Reality will eat us for lunch.

Give us one more drug!

Graves already dug.

Devil looking smug.

Fed lies...

Happy to bite.

Division between people...

Catered news -

a choreographed rhythm.

"You're right, they're wrong."

That's the algorithm's song.

Your pause its cue.

Give it a little longer...

It grows stronger!

You feel weaker.

STOP.

Gotta be a seeker. 

Ancient ways...

Sun rays...

Don't send it.

End it.

Time a currency -

better way to spend it.

Don't you lend it!

Doesn't matter 

what your friend did.

Give real time -

Better than FaceTime.

Talk live.

Time to thrive.

Striving for better.

Don't check the weather -

Walk outside.

It's worth the ride!

Life a passerby... 

Exactly where he wants you.

Forget what you're here to do.

he's so sly.

Forget Somebody died...

That One's on your side!

Battlefront ready -

He'll keep you steady!

Get fed up -

Cause it's time to step up.

Tell it all to shut up!

Disengage.

he'll be enraged.

Taking in Truth 

might make you like Ruth -

Dangerous!

Beat the agenda.

No more propaganda!

Heaven bent -

just here paying rent.

Get ready to pack up your tent!

Remember you've been sent.