Social Contagion
We live in a world
of colored contacts and extensions,
self tanning and lip fillers,
filters and fake smiles,
highlight reels and photoshop –
we carefully curate how the world sees us
taking matters into our own hands
when we are unsatisfied with an area of ourselves,
while some changes provide improvement in self worth,
others merely deepen the void
or create an addiction,
is there any surprise
in the rise of depression
and social media detoxes,
while we see a slight increase
in representation
the molds are the same
separating us further from reality,
will this contagion be eradicated
before we become alien to ourselves,
or will we make monsters of these tools
dismantling honesty and individuality
-POE(MS)
