I like you… like Instagram and if I could I would triple tap because two is not enough to display the affection I have for you… 15 seconds isn’t enough video time for me to look at you. 1700 followers, yet you’re the only one that matters, that’s 1699 people that couldn’t even star as your sequel and see, you’re the first woman to turn me into a true artist, cause I must “tag” you every Wednesday and “re-trace” our memories every Thursday and when you speak I must quote tweet, you’re so poetic… you’re my only trending topic and I promise you’re my favorite, now retweet that, I could repeat that like a 6 second vine, I love you… I could repeat that like 6 or 7 times… I love you I love you I love you but first I liked you… on Facebook. I was too nervous to comment on your page so I sent you a direct message, it took you several days but you read it. I told you, you could take up MySpace any time you wanted to, I didn’t have many friends, just Tom and you… Your was response was something unique, you said “You’re done tumbling with young-minded boys, you’re looking for a gentleman,” I said, “Baby I promise I’m a professional, I’ve been LinkedIn”. … The first time I saw you, you pinned my interest, we had the eHarmony connection, you gave me that I’ll cook for your breakfast, lunch, and dinner feeling, we went home and had that Tinder lovin’ that one night stand so I gotta go all in type lovin’ and everything was cool… until you stopped liking my pictures on Instagram, you said my tweets were no longer interesting and you didn’t have time for my revines. You took my Facebook pokes as jokes, but I was trying to get your attention. I tried to give you MySpace to create ourspace but you told me you just needed space… a couple of days to rethink if it was me who you should continue following. We were so snapchat worthy but you left quicker than my snapchat story, you unpinned me, you unlinked me and sadly you unfollowed me but I was persistent, I stayed optimistic, I kept liking pics and favoriting shit then you block me. But I ain’t worry, I know this is temporary one day you’re gonna turn my blue button green, and I know I’m wishful but I’m one day I’m sure we will be Facebook official and you can treat me as bad and leave as many times as you want to but I promise I’ll never unfollow you…
Background: Chalice aka Nenwon Gbilia wrote this poem in late 2015 so some of the social media allusions may seem out of date but the purpose of the poem remains the same. So many people nowadays use social media as their primary source to find love so Chalice decided to write a poem truly detailing love through social media
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