Echo Chambers And Standing Ovations
We build cathedrals in the dark,
posts evaporate like breath on glass,
no footprints in the snow
of our comment sections.
Algorithms yawn at our persistence.
The hashtag parade marches past,
confetti of emojis raining
on someone else’s sky.
We learn the texture of silence:
rough as unclicked links,
heavy as a DM folder
full of moths.
But when a stranger’s cursor hovers,
when the favorite button flares
like a struck match, when a reply
unfurls its “This made me feel…”
we become roadside diners
lit up at midnight, sudden
and necessary, our neon humming
'You exist. You exist. You exist.'
Let the metrics bleed zeros.
We’ll keep stacking bricks where no one looks.
Every heart is a flare gun;
every share, a slow clap
gathering thunder.
About this poem
For creators shouting into the void: a poem about building cathedrals in the dark, and what happens when someone finally strikes a match. Recognition isn’t the point, but oh, how it burns when it comes. The ache of creating in obscurity. The paradox of craving interaction vs. creating for its own sake. The electric, almost sacred, thrill of being witnessed.
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Written on February 15, 2025
Submitted by ThembieAngieeMt on February 14, 2025
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| Scheme | XXXX AXBC AXXX DXCX DEBX XXEX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 803 |
| Words | 158 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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