By: Jamie Sheehan

It will bring you down

It will haunt you until your head explodes

Make you think your a bad person

Make you feel as if you are being attacked

You will hear the comments

Screaming in your head    

Make you feel lonely

Disconnected from your friends and family

Social Media will change you for the better

And for the worse

I wrote a Inspired By poem. My inspiration was social media and how much hate and negativity is on it. The tone of my poem is belligerent. The theme of my poem is to not get too involved with social media because of all the gloominess on the platform. One of the figurative language in my poem is “It will haunt you until your head will explode.” This is an example of a hyperbole. This contributed towards my poem by showing how impactful social media can be. Another example of figurative language in my poem is “Make you feel as if you are being attacked.” This is a simile, this shows how emotional social media can make people and how deep it can be. One way I revised my poem is I changed “Give you anxiety” to “Make you feel like you are being attacked”. I made these changes to give the line more meaning. Another change I made was replacing “Make you feel like you’re not the best you could be” to “You will hear the comments screaming in your head.” I made this revision to show how impactful the comments and hate can be. This poem was a mixture of both easy and hard because since I am on social media 24/7 I have a connection with social media already. The hard part was coming up with the figurative language. I am satisfied with my poem because I close with the topic which is social media.