Oh Internet, How You Let Me Down!

Oh Internet, How You Let Me Down

Oh Internet, how you let me down,
A labyrinth of light, yet paths unjust—
You promised stars, but served me static sound,
A thousand voices shouting, half-unsure of trust.

Once, you sang of bridges spanned by code,
Where distant hearts would meet, and knowledge flow.
But lagged the call when "I miss you" needed to be said,
And pixels fractured where a friend’s face should have shone.

You dangled dreams of worlds without end—
Videos buffering at life’s truest moments,
A ghost in the router’s hum, a signal unkind,
Leaving my thoughts stuck in the void, unsent, undone.

You wore the mask of genius, spreading vast and quick,
Yet fed the flames of lies with every shared illusion.
Truth drowned in the torrent, lost in the click,
While algorithms hummed seductive confusion.

And now, when your threads snap, I feel the cost—
A nomad without map or compass, adrift.
For you, my lifeline, yet in your breakdown, I’m tossed
Between the longing for connection and the rift.

Oh, architect of distances disguised as near,
I trace your flicker, but no warmth appears.
I seek the world—not just its shadow, cast in bytes and years.