The New Narcissistic American Dream - Frameworks

So convinced of our own

Untapped greatness

It creates this crisis of unmet expectation

Demanding a promotion

Regardless of performance

We’d rather win a lottery

Than any honest earning

The new narcissistic American Dream

Accoladed fame and fortune

To the inflated self-esteem

Conditioned to want more

Nothing more than a mantle piece

Something to vault post to our feeds

Something used to leverage ourselves

Further up the social totem pole

Nothing more than a memory

Captured to fluff our identities

Something to distance ourselves

Further from our own reality

Overstimulate until you

Oversaturate and lose

Capacity to feel anything

Climb just to see

And not to be seen

Deep in the marrow

Deep in your deam