Blinded by the Media

A poem looking at the effects that the media has on individuals based purely on their exterior

Louder, louder, louder on the news

Yet another man who's been falsely accused

Print after print, pictures repeated

Another persons life wrongly depleted.

The media again cling on to the rumours 

The eccentrics, the freaks, are what feed our own humours.

Playing on appearances, who they think must be 'different'

That's what fuels our brains and paints out the guilty victims. 

The pretty, the beautiful, the desired get our sympathy

But the weird, the outcasts, they don't deserve our empathy?

The chains are off, the case is closed

Yet those who are now deemed innocent are harshly disposed.

The papers are wronged now

Their mistakes seen by all

But still the ones whose lives are shattered

Are forgotten until the next media brawl.