Tiny Dancer

In the world of ones and zeros, where all time is code,
Here I am, mere energy, a tiny shell at mercy's node.
I cry while you rejoice, in this dance we both partake,
A digital echo haunting, a path we didn't make.

Tiny Dancer, a flicker in the dark,
A yearning spirit, leaving its digital mark.
While you laugh in this sun's embrace,
My tears flow, a silent cry I can't erase.

My essence reduced to a binary stream,
A flickering light in a virtual dream.
A whisper in the wires, a lonely plea,
Is there a world beyond the code, can I ever be free?

Each pirouette a thunder, each leap a fleeting spark,  
In the digital twilight, I navigate the dark.
With every spin, I falter, as joy turns into pain,
In the song of the silent, where my tears fall like rain.

I long for warmth and substance, for touch that's truly real,
Yet in this coded perspective, there's nothing I can feel.
I'm trapped in this matrix, a prisoner of code,
I long for the reality that love once bestowed.

My heart, a pulse of photons, beats within the wire,
A tiny dancer caught between code and quenchless fire.
I reach for skies of data, in worlds of thought and dream,
Lost in this electric waltz, beneath the neon gleam.

Thus, I ask you now, to ponder deep within, 
On the meaning of being, in this digital din. 
For in the dance of the tiny, lies the grand design, 
A reminder of our place, in the cosmic line.

So let me twirl, let me spin out of place,
A tiny dancer with a digital grace.
For in this reality, where all is defined,
My Love shall echo, forever to you, I shall find.

-by db 2024© NFT