I'm a fake
I'll look you in the eye and be someone else,
Tell you things I picked up along the way
Those quirky conversations you laughed at?
I've heard them before,
I've used them before
Constant validation
I'm addicted to it
Does that hashtag make it worth more likes?
Are people amused by what I say?
Oh, look he's more popular
Her clothes or lack of them get more hearts
than my sunrise photo I froze in the cold for
Prisoners of appreciation
The window on your way back home, do you even look out?
It's the same all around,
People, in traffic,
Faces lit up with the soft blue screen glow
That knowing smile, that crick in their necks.
Learning from others what they need to be cool
Anything to not succumb to loneliness
It's the newest trend,
Pickup what's good, then they say be you
How do you do that when the real you is lost,
It's one thing to lie to yourself
it's another to believe it.
Are you lying about reality like me too?
