Lights, Camera... Action?

"Once you've made your mark you've made a threat to society"- The Threat by Skid Row

 

 

Cranking up the volume on the television

May numb all the thoughts but increases the pain.

For all the artificial friends remind me

That the world is filled with scripted emotions

and empty applause.

A director’s editing to please the masses

Makes for a certain Hollywood ending,

Not the happy one the writer meant.

So staying on this side of the glass

Assures I won’t become a household name,

Then again I miss my chance

In becoming a threat to society.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

We live in a media filled world. People don't read fact or seek real knowledge. I like being unknown. I feel pity for people who have lost their privacy and cannot know peace. I like the last lines. Thank you for a excellent poem.
Coyote

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

Oh the many masks we wear, masquerading as being human. Some pretending to have true hearts with concern for others and those we befriend under the guise of authenticity; without being influenced by media or the words of others. Hollywood and Washington D.C the playground for the phony and deceivers of men.

[An owl on the moon]

There is that sense of the hidden lives so many lead... staying anonymous and beyond the course of a thriving legacy... Powerfully voiced here, my friend, with a vibrant feel of emotion and angst.

[Poetic Beauty]

Television gives it own sense of reality. Many time the truth becomes the truth that the network wants you to see. This is why I am not a huge fan of tv especially reality shows that numb the brain and make no sense. Movies are made to capture the audiences appeal instead of how the writer really wanted it to end. The dramatize everything to make it movie perfect. This is a great poem explaining how hollywood does thing they way they want to.

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it's a media driven society where you put yourself out there for the masses to ridicule..success is now measured on fame..sadly

[Aidz]

a viewpoint from another perspective as we can either participate or sit idly by

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

TV or the idiot box as I call it, is definitely not the place for you. You do much better right (write) here with us and your mighty pen ;)

[SpokenWord]

We can be more of a threat with our pens and paper than we ever can be behind the machine of TV. Too much control, too scripted as you have said, to many hands in the cookie jar trying to send just the right message. An aware write by you excellent.

[Ed Hart]

who said you're not a threat to society?

[emmajoy]

Reality doesn't have a place in the real world or, if it does, people turn away from it, preferring happy endings instead of truth. Your poem reaps the benefit of self knowledge as well as having lived true life, mr. poet.