Loosening - poem

obsession with self

me me me me me me

it's a me meme mine mine

mine you can see this in the

psyches of kids when they move

into this stage of mine mine mine

mine mine the self, social media,

what do they think about me? am i

loved? wanted? do I belong? have

value? the lust for significance, to

matter, to have mattered, to

reproduce, to survive, to

ensure the survival

of the species

this is what

is at work, so often

at work, can we see it,

we see it, in others and

in ourselves as we

loosen our grip