Facebook: A poem by Dr. Rafey Habib

You think you are a loser,
Your dreams shattered, your
Career unfulfilled, your
Marriage empty, your
Slouching body wasting away on
A perpetual couch. You
Think you have nothing
Left, no chance of success,
No dreams of exotic women
Or love regained, no fancy
Cadillac, no ornamented
Suburban house, no
Real friends, not even money
To gamble or drink away
Your days in some smalltown
Bar or pub or even to console
Yourself gorging in a diner.

But if your hope has died here, you
Can always resurrect it in an other world:
Not the Hereafter but Facebook.
Here, after failing, you can
Restake your claims, restart, reborn,
Reincarnated. You can
Tell your story, share each losing moment
With a world which will always answer;
And if it does not, no matter,
Your virtual life needs no
Recognition. Your words are
Never spoken, but always there
In the twilight world, brightened
By ads, images, noise. And
Your image can sit enthroned among the
Bustle of this threatless realm, king
In your own domain, god
Of your own tragic space. Sharing
With all the other gods,
Goddesses, kings and queens,
A virtual indifference
To broken dreams.

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[owlofathene]

@zOmAlGaNg23 If you actually bother to LISTEN to the poem before passing judgement, you will see that it is a CRITIQUE of a modern social tendency. Like many Muslims ignorant of their own religion, you rush to judgement.

[CommanderP]

Ahhh I loved it! Curious though: is this meant to be serious or ironic?

[zOmAlGaNg23]

Astaqfirullah! Subhanallah!

king in your own domain

god of your own tragic space

sharing with other gods godesses

kings and queens

of virtual indifference to broken dreams.

thats your SHIRK poem and you claim that you are a

muslim, this is ishrak and kuffr fantasy, may allah guide you!

[lebronjamesXD]

look at that sexy stache :D

[89loreal]

Oh my...so true.....

[gubassan]

interesting

[blindmagi]

@jptough He's a professor of English.

[MonktE]

in the 6th form study room at my school, almost everyone has a Facebook window opened or minimized on their screen- Its taken over everyone's lives completely eek!

Although this poem portrays Fb as somewhat of a magical paradise, to me it still manages to also portray the negatives e.g wasting 'real' life away on Fb and it raises questions such as "what is 'real' life?" and "Does 'real life' hold any more value than 'virtual life'?"

This is great. :)

[jptough]

Amazingly true. A brilliant psychoanalytic view of Facebook..... from a physician.

[bunnymynost]

I like it.