Unfollowing
It was fine when I started;
follow friends, follow family.
Then folk followed me,
and I’d follow them
out of politeness,
not knowing any better.
But some of the followed
became irksome, boring.
Some advertised –
self or products;
some flooded with RTs,
stupid tunes, crap vids.
Some were just banal,
offensive, insane.
Tentatively, I unfollowed,
and nothing bad happened,
so it happened again, and again.
It’s light-weight, effortless,
unfinal, unjudging, unguilty,
unpainful.
Some day, elsewhere, I’ll find
the courage to unfriend.
Colin Will is a poet and publisher living in Dunbar. He has had six collections published, the latest being The Propriety of Weeding (Red Squirrel, 2012). This is his website.