one more scroll

"one more scroll" (2026) Lyrics by J. Widener with AI-assisted music blue screen glow in a room that won’t sleep messages without sender shape something keeps refreshing softly midnight dissolves into static light morning arrives too late to matter the hours feel pre-recorded like i’m replaying them backward sleep happens in fragments not dreams just interruption one more scroll like a reflex one more face erasing itself something keeps passing through my hands but i’m not touching it hallway light without any warmth a house pretending to listen objects arranged like witnesses a photograph left near the sink not a memory more like evidence remaining names drift through rooms without landing i respond but i don’t connect one more scroll one more break in attention something leaving without movement i follow it without thinking the feed continues but i don’t continue with it time loops strangely after midnight silence behaves like surveillance even breathing sounds mechanical there is a version of me still performing participation but it never fully appears i hear my own laughter like it’s borrowed from somewhere else delayed compressed unowned there is no arrival only repetition each return feels smaller than what left i used to think this was connection but it is proximity without presence a system that forgets people are alive keeps offering reflections and i comply because distraction is easier than silence nothing is answered only circulated one more scroll or what remains of it something still moving but not closer thin signal thin pulse i am present in a reduced form window glow without direction light behaving like weather a face against glass but glass feels deeper than distance screen still running as if deciding for me i do not log out because outside no longer feels assigned one more scroll one more scroll one more signal thinning form collapsing contact discontinued glass… glass… then nothing responding anymore