Begin reading...

HomepageJots

10 Sep 2025

Written By: Zachary Kai » Published:

Wrote a poem about the internet today, during a Homebrew Website Club meeting today. My first attempt at rhyming in...countless years.

Death Shall Not Claim You

Tell me something you've never told anyone else before

A story of the worlds before the supposed end times, before the beginning of the war

Your tale is one everyone thinks they know

It's incredible to think it began almost forty years ago

Everyone's life changed because of you

You've brought about new lives, seen so many creative things through

Billions benefit from your vastness, every single day

Yet they mourn the loss as if you've died, as if there's only one way

For this to end, and for that to be in flames

Woe betide those who are naive, the doomsdayer proclaims

So be it, I shall claim the side of those led astray

Because the internet is not dying. Not now, not ever, and not today

•--♡--•

← Back to Jots

Tags: poetry · indieweb

Copy + Share: zacharykai.net/jots/10sep25

Read again...

Zachary Kai's digital drawing: 5 stacked books (blue/teal/green/purple, black spine designs), green plant behind top book, purple heart on either side.

Zachary Kaihe/him |

Zachary Kai is a space fantasy writer, offbeat queer, traveler, zinester, and avowed generalist. The internet is his livelihood and lifeline.