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The Reality We Have In Common

A poem about today's discrepancies

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The Reality We Have In Common
Geralt

One thing that we have in common, see

It’s the continuous love of reality

From having the alarm jolt you awake

To seeing the dinner on your white paper plate

It’s the little things that make life easier to withstand

Like getting great shows On-Demand

In this adventurous era of technology

It's getting harder to see the persistency

Of the slow waves similar to those on a foggy gray day

One thing we have in common, see

Is this dire need...

To be important, to make a difference

Whether it be horrendously big or teeny tiny

Sometimes our goals get clouded by the society in which we live

Our society has made

Getting likes on instagram or retweets on twitter

More important to some than family or friends,

But when did this begin?

When did we start putting social media first?

Social Media has become dark and dingy like a cave

That we seem to crave the attention of others, that we don’t even know

We all seemed to be cursed with this blue, influential screen,

That our mental health has gone awol,

So much so that our teens bawl and call

In the depths of the night that no one hears them

And instead of creating positivity we seem to project negativity

So forcefully that our teens end up stiff

Take a step back and realize what we have in common

Is not the amount of friends on Facebook but the love we share

And how much we care for those small goals

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