Digital Ghosts

Our digital footprints never fade,

Like ghosts in silent servers kept,

The comments and the posts we made

While all the world around us slept.

The photos that we thought were gone,

The messages we can't recall,

In digital dusk and digital dawn

Our online shadows stand so tall.

We think we delete and erase,

But in the cloud our memories stay,

Leaving a permanent trace

Of everything we do and say.

These digital ghosts of who we were

Still wander in the machine's heart,

Their silent voices still occur

Though we've forgotten from the start.

So mind the words you type with speed,

The images you choose to share -

These are the digital seeds

That grow beyond your knowing care.