Pixelated Window/Scattering the Black Walls
A Poem Reflecting My Own Experiences With Depression, Heightened by Social Media
Pixels:
Love,
Laugh,
Succeed.
I reach out into the screen's static,
yearning for a taste of the rotten honey lives of their
infinite soap operas.
A desolate room brimming with emptiness,
heavy in fierce fragility,
the gloom swallowing the screen
that swallows my stare.
A black, inescapable kingdom
of a lonely queen - a prisoner, free
in the hurricane arms of a world that won't pause to consider
this small being.
Pixels:
Loving,
Laughing,
Succeeding in a never-ending reality show and I'm
here,
watching from the shadows of a desolate room brimming with emptiness,
yearning to pull the plug and watch as their faces flicker to oblivion
and surrender to the customary comfort of shadows
as I surrender
to oblivion.
But hands
reach past a web of escapisms and lies and Instagram likes
and open a curtain.
And behind the glass is the promise of their open palms,
waiting for me to step over the threshold
into a world of welcome.
About the Creator
Megan Angharad
I'm a 19 year old Welsh university student who loves writing about her passions: Wales, poetry, books, creative writing and music amongst other things. I hope that you enjoy reading my work as much as I enjoy writing it.
Cymru am byth!
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