AI Poem of the Week: Hyperlinked

AI Prompt: poem about man who gets trapped in hyperlinks that are embedded in web pages

Hyperlinked

He clicked the link, just like the other times,
A simple search, an idle climb.
But as the page began to load,
The world around him cracked and bowed.

The screen blinked bright, then pulled him in—
A tangle of code, where he’d begin.
Caught in the web, he tried to fight,
But hyperlinks tugged him from site to site.

He tumbled through ads, through endless scrolls,
Through pop-ups, banners, and viral polls.
A flashing maze of links unknown,
Each click became a stepping stone.

He landed first on a product’s page,
With promises to fight old age.
But before he could click away in fear,
Another link pulled him far from here.

He plunged through forums, threads untied,
Lost in the memes that multiplied.
Into a comment war he fell,
Where trolls and bots began to swell.

A fleeting glimpse of news went by,
And conspiracy sites that caught his eye.
He fought to break free, to find some ground,
But in this network, he was bound.

He clicked and clicked, each link a trap,
A never-ending, endless map.
Through DIYs and food blogs bland,
Each click erased his chance to stand.

He screamed into the search bar void,
But search results only made him annoyed.
For every answer sparked more quests,
Each more tangled than the rest.

His body stretched, dissolved in streams,
Of HTML and fractured dreams.
Until his thoughts became pure code,
An endless loop, forever flowed.

Now trapped in links, he roams the net,
A digital ghost, lost in regret.
So beware the links you think benign—
One click, and you could cross the line.