It's The Internet's Fault

My heart pounds through my chest

Blame it on the internet

My breathing hitches and my palms sweat

Blame it on the internet

If I would just turn it off

Then all my problems I’d forget.

Or at least that’s what he says

He thinks social media

Is the evil thing that is suppressing our youth

An easy fix

But the depressing truth is

suffering is forever prevalent

And the current rise

Is honestly no surprise to me

When I think of the way they are treated

When I think of the lives that they’re leading

When I think of the burdens they carry,

The cautions and the wary

uncertainty they are faced with

The pressure placed

It overwhelms me.

Maybe I’m being overdramatic

But sometimes I look at all of this erratic

Chaos around me and find that maybe it’s

His fault.

He says that it’s ruining my generation.

My generation?

My generation

According to him

Is selfish

And unpredictable

And oh so egotistical

And it’s because of technology.

Yes, technology is what is ruining children,

Definitely not the people who raised them.

Definitely not the world they were raised in.

I’m not saying that the internet

Is all good

I know that

It can leave a negative impact on people

But it’s irresponsible

To peg all of our problems

On something that isn’t even acting on it’s own.

The people using it is what makes it bad

And those people would be in our world

And individual lives

Regardless.

My head is swirling with self-hate

Blame it on the internet

I turn to self-destructive habits

Blame it on the internet

I don’t even have social media

But let’s all blame it on the Internet.

It's all your fault.