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Debbie Miller
Feb 12, 2021

Why?

You post your

private business

For all the world

to see,

Why then cry

your heart out

Such hypocrisy.

You want the world

to love you:

Why can’t you

love yourself?

For Life is more

than images

Upon a platform’s shelf.

Ask yourself

what matters most.

Ask yourself

what’s real.

A profile isn’t human:

Can’t touch,

can’t love,

can’t feel.

I don’t know

why you always try

To live your life

online.

I don’t know why

you must pretend

That everything is fine.

Admit that you are broken.

Allow yourself to mend.

Turn off your technology

Refuse to just hit send.

Walk out in the sunshine;

Talk to a trusted friend

Choose to live

in the real world

Begin your life again.

Debbie Miller
Debbie Miller

Written by Debbie Miller

I am a child of the universe, poet, philosopher and idealist and teacher.

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