Kids don’t have imaginary friends anymore.

LilyB
Nov 10, 2021

Why would we?

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Why would we waste the energy

having to design a character from scratch?
There’s more than enough internet personalities

to prevent us from spending a moment alone.

Never understanding what it means to be

accountable.

independent.

No, we can forever blend into a crowd.

anonymous.

cocooned.

Not seeing further than

the closest big presence around us.

That’s how we like it

you see it’s so much easier that way

there’s always an escape goat

the mentality of the mob to blame

and to be honest

we don’t think our shoulders are strong enough

to carry the weight

of our own responsibility.

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LilyB

Aspiring everything, but for the sake of 160 characters… I write and read poetry and personal essays. Happy to create/chat/collab!