Relationships today
start with the follow button.

You meet someone,
you hit follow,
and you subscribe to
their life’s live feed.

Then you know their vacations,
their meals and dinners,
and their expensive, flashy stuff;
and all the things they are not.

You don’t know
what goes on behind the screens,
you don’t know
what they go through
before
they doze off to sleep every night,
you don’t know
the cracks in them.

Our connections have become
glam shows and performances
where the stage is set every day,
benchmarks are broken every day.
It’s a stage lit with filters
you watch their life,
they watch yours,
and it’s all nothingness.

We don’t meet people anymore,
we don’t know
what they are really going through,
we meet their projections,
we know an illusion,
not the human
behind the screen.