Feedback loop

(Instant gratifying response to our actions or opinion)

We're stuck in a feedback loop

On Facebook, Twitter

Elsewhere on line

Claiming our voices

Democracy's fine

But if you disagree

Prepare to me named

If you dare leave the pack,

Then you're bound to be shamed.

Piranha surround you

And tear you apart

Destroying your name

And removing your heart.

Is democracy dying

Because we all have a voice?

Does "freedom of speech" destroy

Freedom of choice?

If I choose to be different

Not think like you do

Does democracy mean

You can turn on me too?

Surrounded by people

Who think like you do

Wishing someone would kill me

For leaving the troop

And breaking the chain

Of your closed feedback loop.