Closing Down ~ Original Verse Edition
You know what?
I’m very tired.
Tired of Melodrama
Tired of Damage inflicted
through Virtual Friendship,
Faceless Friends
I would not recognize
in the street!
Tired of Stalkers,
Tired of Mind Games
played between people,
Tired of Mediating
Then Lambasted.
Sage advice
my friend gave me years ago,
It stands as true today
as the day she spoke to them
over coffee at the ancient kitchen table …
‘Look! Beware pillow talk.’
What do you mean?
‘People who fall out
will each come to you.
You try to keep the peace
and you end up
apparently accidentally siding with one
more than with the other
Then they get back together
and THAT’s when,
in the heat of lovemaking
notes are compared
In a moment
you’ve become
the villain of the piece.’
Never is this truer
than in Sham
- social media -
Friendships
Many are true
Many more a sham.
A world of Make-Believe
A Pretend World
convinced of their Authenticity.
What on earth motivates a mind
to make demands for recompense
and then threaten
if a word is breathed to anyone?!
Criminality
Delusion
The Deluded Mind
is the most dangerous Stalker of all
Let us return to the real world!
Make real friends!
Let us cease creating Misery
through this Medium
of unreal friendships
Accept forgiveness
and leave the matter at that.
Don’t seek the Varys Whisper
Stop trying to control these
virtual friendships
I am NOT interested
in receiving silly blessings
It is wrong …
I say again …
IT IS WRONG
Tired of that lonely, windswept
turgid road to Coventry
Es ist Falsch!
Punkt!
22 May 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022-2023
Composed 9 November 2019
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Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
