In my lifetime I've seen self-possession

Become unhealthy self-obsession,

Where the awareness of what it is to be

Has become the mantra "me, me, me".

And this trait is getting worse...

A modern Narcissistic curse,

The needful are become needier

Encouraged by the social media,

Funded by big business ads

That serve to promote fatuous fads

That pander to the self-obsessed 

Who'd be better being self-possessed.

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