Where’s My Hug At?

Attention, attention

May I have your attention please?

Can’t survive without you

Need you to legitimize everything I do

Give me the likes

Share the posts

I need it

Desperate for attention

So I seek it out in multiple texts

Sending them back to back

Never been afraid to triple text

Saying anything to get your reply

You know I had a dream about you?

Maybe you’ll be curious enough

To hit reply and ask about it

I stalk your social media

Planning and plotting how I can

Stay in your mind

Never given the attention

I wanted growing up

Now I turn to the world to praise me

You like me, right?

Tell me that I’m a good person

Worthy of you talking to me

Interact and give me a thumbs up

Don’t look too closely though

You might see my ugliness

The part of me I reserve for

Those who don’t make me fight

To be in their lives

I take it for granted

Only seeking validation from those

Who forgot I exist

Stay focused

Look at this witty thing I posted

Watch me do the latest dances

I can tell you a joke I stole

You see me as a comedian

As I hide that I’m a clown

I claw my way out of the recesses

Of your memory

Text me

Call me

DM me

Anything to give me attention

I need it

Without your attention

I have nothing to distract me

From the shameful parts of myself

Attention, attention

Please

I’m desperate for your attention