My Dead Friends Still Use Facebook
Empty pages on the internet contain
lives of our friends who didn’t
make it to the present we so enjoy.
Their pictures are time capsules,
their words logs of life long lost,
their friends still posting on birthdays
“I miss you. You’re gone too soon.”
The memorials of binary baubles
ever present in its coding. Its flashbacks
remind us of love left in the ledgers.
I wonder if they still read the adverts,
if they can solve the evolving Captchas,
or when the servers will scrub their data.
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so touching… ‘love left in the ledgers’….. feel this deeply
A very intriguing write. I like the final inquiry.
Reminds me of how I still have saved emails and voicemails on my phone from lost loved ones I can’t bear to erase. But it’s true–one day they as well will be gone.
Shew, felt. “Its flashbacks/remind us of love left in the ledgers.”
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This hits home to a lot of folks. Like L. Coyne said, I too have saved emails and voicemails from those passed. Thanks for posting this!
“Binary baubles” as I look at my own phone storage of photos and texts I cant let go… great poem!
Those last three lines really elevate this poem. Nicely done!
It’s the friends still posting on birthdays that really gets me here. The loss still felt year after year. Thank you for giving us a place to share in this emotion.