My Piece on their Piece called "Let Me See Your Phone"

The theme this week is the idea of insecurities/how to get rid of them. This poem is more about insecurities and the idea of insecurities in relationships being fueled by technology and social media in this generation. This poem was performed at a Brave New Voices festival in 2014. Brave New Voices is an annual festival for youths around the world who write and perform spoken word pieces. These festivals are held in different places every year, this particular semi-final was in D.C. This piece is about how teenagers in relationships have insecurities that are shown through the lack of trust with their significant other and their technologies -- hence, "let me see your phone". They talk about social networks as well and how people will go to no end to find people they think their significant other is talking to or likes. What I found interesting was them talking about how they thought it was official between them because of Instagram posts and bios -- which obviously aren't the things to depend on for trust, I like this piece because I have personally witnessed insecure people do things like this and make big deals out of nothing on social media. This shows insecurities because like they said at the end "you don't need my password to unlock my trust". There should be trust in a relationship without a "let me see your phone" type attitude, to me at least.