Today your status
Changed from we're expecting
To were expecting
One apostrophe
A catastrophe
Breaks your heart
Wide open
Then smashes it shut
Constricting tightly
Squeezing the life out you
Black and white words
Mono-tone letters
Too far removed from reality
Technological communication
Taken so casually
Can't distinguish between
Honesty and fakery
And the world can't see
The hidden emotions
The tone of your pain
Jokes taken seriously
And cries for help
Mocked and received lightly
Then we sit and wonder
After we poke fun and ridicule
How we never thought it could happen
Head in our hands and ponder
What pushed our classmates and colleagues
Over the edge
What made them stand out on that ledge
Whilst you stood on the firm ground
And recorded
A viral youtube sensation
Robotic motions
Like
Poke
Tag
Tweet
Repost
Smiley faces after every sentence
☺
Force of habit
Or forced smiles
L O L
To offset the seriousness
Of the carefully chosen letters
Put together to hide
The broken person inside
Behind the screen
We're all google scholars
Somewhere through a screen
We've lost how to be human