unsocial media

the long and short hands move
in synchronous precision
sand flowing seamlessly
in realms of truth and reality

time, delicately sacred,
yet essence lost and wasted
in a game of algorithm,
chasing shiny bugs and trolls
down the winding rabbit hole

where the long and short hands
dig a graveyard of morrows
where sandstorm hits the eyes
with biases and lies

the cure

wind from unknown seas beckon
to leave the harbour
sail into the uncharted,
the peregrine’s heart
pumping salt water
comes alive…
heals

Wake up!

Hear, hear!
Captain’s missing
Oh dear!

You clown,
Take the lifeboat.
Or drown.

You cluck,
This is a plane.
What luck!

Lorelyn is a self-published author of Twin deLights, “Haikuna Matata (a collection of haiku) and Hainaku! It’s Pundemic! I am Balot. Acovida dito (a collection of word plays and puns).” She is also a member of the Write Your Legacy community in the Philippines, working overseas as a medical transcriptionist. Her poetry has been featured and published in several anthologies and journals like The Haiku Foundation and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.