Real Reality
So you followed,
so you believed.
Every pixel you relived
while you swallowed the feed.
Just breathe.
While your thoughts became echoes
of a memorylane replay on-screen.
A static glow turned your eye
away from the real reality.
©Samia Oldman
CONTEXT
You are reading dystopian fantasy poetry collection the Hush Halo. After the Great Optimization a privileged group of people wired themselves tightly into the system by aligning with it and fully integrating. Systoics believe they’ve perfected themselves by stripping away everything that slows them down.
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