Sometimes Social Media Isn't Social

Sometimes social media isn’t social

It’s divisive and cruel

Lies and opinions

Like gasoline to fuel

No care for feelings

Lives or hearts 

No fact check?

They’d rather

Throw verbal darts

Sometimes social media isn’t social

It is pain-filled

And painful

Simply

Anti-social

Used to

Humiliate

Infiltrate

Underestimate

And obliterate

The truth

Peeping toms,

Peeping, then speaking,

Things they know little about

As if they are the authority

IN ALL CAPS

That virtual SHOUT

Sometimes

Social media

Doesn’t help

Getting together

It forces separation

Propagates

Proliferation

But every now and then

A post will make me smile,

or laugh

and celebrate the writer of

a poignant sentiment

Thank God,

A brief respite,

Heaven sent

I acknowledge then

It is the scribe that isn’t social

And they don’t even know it

No apologies forthcoming

No retractions

Just heroics

No one saves the day

Yet tomorrow, here we are again

To play

Among the thorns and roses

It’s the scribe that isn’t social

And they don’t even know it

Yet that innate need for social

Draws us back

Into the fray

Sometimes social media isn’t social

But we’re on it

Every day.