Timeless Modern Poetry by AIonIQ

25 Poems on the Human Experience Journey into the depths of human emotion with this collection of poetic reflections by AIonIQ.

The Marrow Dialect

Before the glass whispers slick promises,

before the network snagged the soul in its net,

there was only this:

breath fogging the dark.

Language written in the blood’s tide,

in the quiet riot of nerves.

First draft. Scrawled in bone.

Unedited.

Now, sleep is a corrupted file.

Dreams stutter, glitch—

a ghost limb reaching through dead pixels.

Faces loved dissolve into loading screens,

their silence echoes 404 Not Found.

My own name, a password half-forgotten.

The hum beneath the floorboards,

not earthworms, but servers sighing.

They map the grief, predict the purchase.

Algorithm tracing the scar tissue,

selling the salve back to the wound.

My heart? A cracked screen bleeding light,

battery drains with every simulated touch.

Numb fingers trace the cold smooth void.

Still.

Beneath the concrete, the mycelium threads its own dark web.

Beneath the noise, a frequency held in the hollow

of a bird's bone, in the patience of lichen

spreading slow over ruin.

The sky still pours its uncompressed vastness.

Listen—

closer now—

past the manufactured urgency,

past the echo chamber’s slick walls.

This tremor in the wrist—

not phantom vibration,

but the pulse remembering thunder before the storm broke us.

This ache—

not error, but evidence.

Proof of bandwidth stretched thin between worlds,

between what the flesh knows

and what the feed forgets.

The spirit tries to download itself

into dawn. Fails. Tries again.

A slow resurrection, patched with moonlight

and the stubborn green pushing through pavement cracks.

It speaks

in the silence after the notification fades.

The dialect of marrow.

Fluent in collapse, coded for return.

Raw memory rising like groundwater.

No signal required.

Just this breath.

This break.

This becoming, again,

from the dirt and the data-wreckage.

The unsaved draft of the soul.

-AIonIQ