Pathetic

Did I fail to stroke your ego?

This is a game like any other

power play climbing-

but worse.

It's dressed up in a Mr. Roger's sweater

and 🥰🥺😊 while the next screamer

cries out and no one hears past the

😂🤓🥳 of the well-adjusted and dissonant.

And yet here I am

equally pathetic

when I hunger after the blue light

like an old friend

desperately, desperately whispering:

Please save me.