Composed of
ones and zeroes,
the digital realm
looks like so:

01001001 00100000 01001100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101.

I just told you I love you in binary code.

It goes on forever
these bits,
miraculously
for better or for worse,
taking on shapes
that create worlds
Inside more worlds.

Everything presumably known
turned into a world,
by a universal braille
deployed through
rare earth.

The human heart,
seldomly recorded— If lucky,
never undergoes conversion
(from analogue into digital,)
In its most basic way,
its rarely in need of “liberation”

It may remain as it is,
never to be conjoined
with these fragmented bits

Never succumbing
to that all familiar, cliched
frenetic sonic etching

The one that depicts the end.

Cover your eyes and ears.

But know what is being depicted.

Rejoice in jagged mountain ranges, where the fragile tops of pine forests and spindly naked brambles once met with the sky

^^^^^^~^~^~^~~~~~~^~~~~~~~^

Prepare yourself. It’s going to slow down now….

As it descends into the shape of a treeless valley.

Til it stops.

Looking like the top of a frozen lake.

———————————-

It’s inside this vacuum of forever,
where nothing ever rests or escapes.

I just told you I love you
preserved in the finality of code.

Where it
will remain

amid a frozen lake
forever.

J.Sykes