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Lights On, Life Off

December 2, 2017
By bellzvar BRONZE, Melbourne, Other
bellzvar BRONZE, Melbourne, Other
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Just because you’re talking to someone doesn’t mean they like you
Just because they tell you that they love you, doesn’t mean they actually do
When that light turns on, reality turns off
What you have in your hand isn’t what is around you

What people can say about others, they can say about you too, remember that
You don’t know what is really going on anymore
Those flashes of light are meaningless
Those so called signs are nothing but an indicator in the wrong direction
Waiting for you to turn and crash

One little disappearing message last a long time
One vanishing photo lasts a life time
Friendships lost, enemies made
Life’s shattered, crashed, ruined, ended
But you didn’t mean it. Right?

Yeah that’s right, you never mean it
It was just a joke, no harm intended
You’ve crushed everything into tiny shards of red glass
No turning back now, only going on with your life like nothing ever happened
While I sit here melting away into black ink and tears
All that’s left is my broken heart, slowing and dying


The author's comments:

Lights On, Life Off is a poem based on the use of social media and the effects, short term and long term, that it can have on people. The poem is written about a girl that has been bullied, humiliated and spoken about behind her back. The person/ people bullying her claim it was a joke even though it basically ruined her life.


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