I had a vision
when I first browsed the web:
An open world
where information
was available to everyone –
information to improve the world.
Knowledge shared
and built upon.
Improved,
passed on.
I thought; finally a medium
for everyone.
This must be the future.
And a future worth working on
(so I learned to code)
but I shouldn’t have been so sure…
I lick my wounds today
disturbed at the ugliness
I helped to access the world
full of unsuspecting prey.
I can say that I didn’t know
it could ever come to that
and it would be true, though –
The honest words might be
that I wanted to believe
in humanity
despite its apparent flaws.
I gambled
and I lost –
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