Digital Chains

Foreword / Introduction

It’s been like a month since I posted anything. School got crazy busy and I really needed to work on my mental health. That’s kinda what made me write this poem, because I honestly think people are way too obsessed with technology and AI. When I say I needed to work on my mental health, I mean talking to my psychologist, hanging out more with my siblings, and just finding things that make me happy. I even disconnected from the internet for a few days. A lot of people need that but they’re too stuck to their phones and computers. If more people just dared to disconnect for a bit, their mental health would get so much better. Way better than all the fake things AI gives you…

Poem: Digital Chains [contemporary social commentary]

We tap and swipe without a thought,
our minds are tied to glowing screens.
The answers that we never sought
are fed to us by cold machines.
Our hearts grow heavy, souls feel caught
in webs of artificial dreams.

The chatbots whisper in our ears,
“Let me decide what is right for you.”
We’ve traded wisdom for our fears
and lost the things we used to do.
Now anxiety and sadness tears
through lives that once felt real and true.

My friends ask apps to pick their clothes,
to write their words and think their thoughts.
They’ve forgotten what nobody knows:
that being human can’t be taught.
While depression in them grows
from all the fake stuff that they’ve bought.

We used to stumble, make mistakes
and learn from every little fall
but now AI does whatever it takes
to shield us from it all.
Our mental health just breaks and breaks
behind each artificial wall.

The loneliness cuts deep inside
when algorithms know us best.
We’ve got nowhere left to hide
from this digital unrest.
Our real selves we’ve pushed aside
for likes and hearts and all the rest.

I wish we would put the phones away
and feel what is beating in our chest.
Remember how to think and pray
and give our tired minds some rest
before we lose ourselves today
to this technological test.