Modern Life Poem by DM W

O Modern life seems to nourish the trivial
And inflate the spectacular! Celebrities
Assume a warped normality; as they seem to
Live out a thousand dreams and desires for us.
We witness the superficial saturation
Of our screens via private lives becoming
Increasingly public in titillating
Talk shows and ridiculous ' Reality'
T.V programmes. Tragedies and horrors are now
Regurgitated and sanitised in rampant
Twenty four hour news programmes and documentaries.
The bleakest human face is rendered meaningless.
It has become a mere freely floating image
Competing for attention; amidst myriad
distractions: information collides with advertising.
With the exponential rise of social media,
There is now the forced extroversion of our
interior lives. No halo of protection
Surrounds us.Commodity signs abound. We are
Drawn to the faux beauty of plastic surgery.
The logo symbolises status in a shrinking world.
Yet, the once revered, divine Logos is now defunct.