Second chances are uncommon
people just leave
they look at you and judge you with all they have
as if you were a one-minute thing, an Instagram story

Perhaps you are having a weird day, full of incomprehensible ideas
perhaps it was just too much happiness and funny words that day
perhaps you got bad news and you just swallowed your pain
maybe Saturn was squaring the Sun, or just the Moon was shining all over you
whatever and however it was, the reasons to reject you are always growing

We live in a time of opportunities
You can be whatever you dream of,
with whomever you want,
don’t settle for less! They say
You can click NEXT if you don’t like the smallest detail
It’s like a never ending scrolling of people

I wonder if someone ever takes the time nowadays
the time to be with you
to just see you,
to understand you,
to feel your whole expression
I wonder if people have lost their multi-dimensionality
I wonder where is that space we used to have
that space of talking, being and seeing with a blank mind, just to experience one another

But when they next-you in their app-kind-of-life,
they just distance themselves,
they just lose themselves in their solitude
and they go for the next person, and the next, and the next
it’s a sort of addiction, an addiction of the soul for the “promised land”
How can we keep living like this?

People look for outside themselves what they can’t see in the mirror
they look and look for beauty, success, tenderness, pleasure, even love
and of course, they look for attention
attention is the new gold
We are being trained to lose ourselves and look for attention

But I am multi-dimensional!
Look at all my pictures at different venues
Look at my dog in the park
Look at me god damn it!
I am someone, I am someone to be looked at!
I am happy! I swear

Second chances are important, this is what we truly need
a simple scroll back, 3 likes, 1 super like, another message
We deserve that, not for the attention, just for ourselves
because “they” can’t take that away from us
they can’t take the courage to be soft, kind and welcoming with the stranger across the street