Stamps of Approval

How am I feeling about myself

Does it even matter

My health 

My spiritual wealth

Drained to the bottom

Something that seems forgotten

Spilling out my emotions here

Sure that I can't voice them

It doesn't matter where I want to go

When I'm not okay with where I am

Happiness is based on happening

Those I cannot control

Contentment and peace

The deepest longing

So please, let everything else be released

Wanting to throw away my phone

Held back

When I'm on it I don't feel so alone

I'd rather be by myself

Than with anyone else

In my heart I feel so alone

When did I pay in for the lies

Dropping bits all over 

Like a trick trail in my mind

I need to get off this path

Making me blind

Trapping me inside

Recognition and attention are the cries

Revealing dissatisfaction and insecurities

Masked with stamps of approval 

From individuals lives

At first so appealing

Attracting you in

Once reeled to the surface 

After you bite the bait

You meet the face

Behind your fate

Left with a decision

Do I fight

Or do I let go and give in

One leads to another chance

The other puts you back

Into another person's hands