Doomscroll Lullaby

(“swipe to sleep...”)

(pulses like a warning light)

Eyes wide, lying in a digital bed

Newsfeed bleeding like the world is dead

No escape, just tap and slide

Every headline tucks me in tonight

Blue light bleeding through the night

Fingers scrolling like they’re chasing light

War, collapse, another tweet

Drown my thoughts, till I can't speak

Truth is loud, but comfort’s fake

So I scroll ‘til the silence breaks

Sing me a doomscroll lullaby

Rock me slow with every lie

Wrap me up in static fear

Make the silence disappear

Don’t wake me from the noise, I might cry

Doomscroll lullaby

(Flick... swipe... breathe...)

I only sleep when the fear runs deep

War on loop, hope on mute

I feed the beast with one more route

Algorithms whisper sweet despair

Soothe my brain with electric air

Echo chambers in my head

Headlines flash in shades of red

I blink but nothing really lands

I hold the chaos in my hands

I feel too much to feel at all

So I let the glowing spiral fall

Sing me a doomscroll lullaby

Rock me slow with every lie

Wrap me up in static fear

Make the silence disappear

Don’t wake me from the noise, I might cry

Doomscroll lullaby

(Flick... swipe... breathe...)

Peace feels like a dying breed

“You are now entering rest mode...”

Terror wrapped in lullabies

Safe beneath synthetic skies

Sleep won't come but dreams still glitch

I cradle noise like it’s a switch

To shut the world and all it screams

And overdose on pixel dreams

I used to dream in color tones

Now I dream in broken phones

My Notifications never rest

But quiet hurts inside my chest

Let me drift on pixel seas

'Cause real life brings me to my knees

Sing me a doomscroll lullaby

Rock me slow with every lie

Wrap me up in static fear

Make the silence disappear

Don’t wake me from the noise, I might cry

Doomscroll lullaby

(Flick... swipe... fade...)

I’m safe where nothing’s real