I watched you die Wasn't there next to you Nowhere in your site Just on my cell phone Watching you die While the next meme follows in the timeline I saw your family cry I've never met them Don't even know anyone who knows them Saw them on a YouTube While going through recommended videos I tuned in to your hashtag Followed for a few minutes Liked a few tweets But didn't retweet Hit the arrow on the top left And went back to my timeline After I watched you take your last breath You lay lifeless Not fortunate enough to die in the energy of love Immortalized in the death of many But many isn't enough for change Ever a hashtag Sustained by newsreels and halfΒhearted court cases, likes and retweets Until I watch the next you die in my timeline Worse yet, I'll read of their demise in a headline Just last week a man lost his testicles, teeth, and life after a routine stop on the highway, the story didn't trend or make it into my timeline
I watched you die Wasn't there next to you Nowhere in your site Just on my cell phone Watching you die