"THE HIRED DIGITAL WARRIORS" in "RESTLESS: POETICALLY-SPEAKING"

Create your own stories
for the sake of your guts and glory
fiction or real
depending how you feel

Social media
a perfect digital platform to your eyes
an online playground
where cyberbullies bring you down

Check out the players
and thickening plots
fuelled by raging fire
If you need more,
get the desperate for hire
as long as they’re ready to become liars

Real-time, interactive entertainment
absolute joy and torment
Some get sick and disconnect
before their heads begin to crack

Who’s the hero?
Who knows?
Who’s the villain?
How’re you feeling?

Fake accounts
like masks taken down
In the end,
it’s just bloody, all the same
fellow humans
causing each other pain.

R.