‘Keep Scrolling’ by Jennifer Broadbent, age 16, Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School

It never ends.

You find yourself slipping into this cycle

until reality begins to bend.

Your obsession becomes tidal.

 

You find yourself slipping into this cycle,

an expert’s voice leaving you unsure.

Your obsession becomes tidal

and you’re swept along by the corps.

 

An expert’s voice leaving you unsure

as it’s drowned in a sea of lies.

You’re swept away with the corps;

the truth has sunk in front of your eyes.

 

I feel I am drowning in a sea of lies

and reality is starting to bend.

The truth has sunk in front of my eyes.

It feels as though it never ends.