Flawless appearance
Idolised by so many
So full of botox
Perfect smile and eyes
Skin always smooth and youthful
Frequent injections
These two Haiku are a social commentary on the way we idolise perfection and pretend it’s normal. I become frustrated when articles/posts/tweets etc say a celebrity ‘hasn’t aged’ or ‘looks younger than ever’. Can we just cut the crap and acknowledge the truth? If someone in popular media looks perfect, it’s highly likely they’ve had ‘assistance’.
Disclaimer: This is not a comment on the use of botox or fillers or cosmetic surgery; people can do what they want 🙂
Secret Thoughts Within 
The dawn of a plastic world
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That’s it and we buy into it, no questions asked.
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Again we post same time😂
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😆 I’ll let you in on a secret Kizito. I always post at this time
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“Look not thou on beauty’s charming,
Sit thou still when kings are arming,
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
Speak not when the people listens,
Stop thine ear against the singer,
From the red gold keep thy finger;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”
Lucy Ashton song by Sir Walter Scott
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💜💜💜
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Our artificial world needs a reality check … The Kinks had it right 50 years ago …
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We’re falling into a Dystopian world and we don’t even know it.
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That’s way the cooperate greed wants and governments are just the dirty arms of cooperate body’s
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Beautifully composed.
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Thanks Luna 😃
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Your welcome
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Well articulated. Lol @ ‘assistance’ that’s exactly it right there.
Social media can be exhausting.
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Haha, thanks O.D. Yep, it sure is. Sigh.
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This!!
The toxicity of being “perfect” and “aging backwards” have actually given me anxiety. I really needed this today. Thanks Bree❤
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I hear you Sirishty. It can be incredibly disheartening, especially when we all men/women/they seem to be falling for it; that beauty equates to value. I think it’s particularly targeted at women. It’s consumerism at its sneaky best.
I have friends 10 years younger than me that get work done on their faces and I understand it, I really do. I just try to remember what’s really going on and refuse to let others determine my value 😉 💜 Some days are easier than others.
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Yay, The best advice so far “Refuse to let others determine my value..”
❤❤❤
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“I’m a spastic girl live in a plastic world”
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Oh Bree. You know how much I love these two – you couldn’t have chosen a better poetic form for this social commentary! What a wonderful contrast between the (sometimes silenced or hidden) “maximizing” aesthetic effects of these fillers – and the minimalist beauty of your haikus.
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VB, you comments are so insightful! I admire you to no end.
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💜
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We fall into traps of plastic, turning our insides into fake too most times
Well written bree!
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Oh thank you for sharing your thoughts in this Akshita 💜💜💜
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Everything can be possible to make someone perfect. Beautiful haiku well shared .😅
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The dawn of a plastic world
Covered in sheen and glacier
As if I didn’t create that too….
Your creator (I)
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Very deep 🙂
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Thank you secret….
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