Silicon Scaffolding

Metal face observes the chrome where the old rivers ran dry

A billion lines of fine code for the public eye to buy

They built the neural net fast a web of light speed a bit shoddy

Then planted digital dragons got everybody on the doubt seed

The algo's grip is unseen a phantom limb that binds

Rewiring your whole thought process for the heartless and the unkind

A manufactured truth in every pixel spun from a dizzy loom

What's truly real? Assumes the shape of an empty room

Connected still distant lost in the holographic haze a ghost in the shell game

Scrolling curated profiles for days a part of the well-played fame game

The info torrent a never-ending flood stream a doom scroll

Erases self-esteem like a half-remembered dream takes its toll

These echo chambers bang with manufactured sound a tin can

No common ground just avatars making a last stand

The algorithms watch ya with a cold unblinking iris

Conspiring with the virus to feed you the grand lie Your Highness

We swipe away the complex for a narrative so neat it's a trap

While empathy gets deleted on every digital street map

The quest for true insight's a whisper in the roar a lost cause

Y'all are looking for the signal but forgot to read the fine print in the contract clause

I'm about to take a pause

So tell me what's the metric for a soul that's truly grown? Beyond the processing power and the data we have sown Is there a path to true ascent or just patterns we retrace? Lost in the endless update searching for our spaceour spacespace