Disrupt the Doom Scroll

A Poem to Lift Your Mood on Dismal Days

When the doom scroll

Has you downcast

And the newscasts

Leave you cold

When the reels

Have sent you reeling

And you’re eaten up

By trolls

Take back control

Secure your soul

Shake yourself awake

To break

The algorithm’s hold

Throw an anchor to forever

Sink your hopes into the heart

Of the one who broke the mould

Who’s scarred hands hold

The truest gold

Know that decency

An…