was passiert

my thumb is buzzing over light
click on headline after headline
keyword, printed in bold
callsigns, question marks, but never certainty
and yet certainty
unsettling and true
serious and there

the internet is full of it
from the mockery of the news
about the sorrow and the anger
about the fear and the dispute
the news about rainfalls
and walls of fire where
was once still alive
and not death tone in tone

go please, what's wrong?
well, everything, or not?
who knows what is right now
maybe that's all
maybe it's nothing

but what if at the end of the day
when the light goes out completely
but a spark of truth was
who then deleted it
and who is responsible
when all say
I said yes

when someone says
this is not good
then it doesn't matter
even if many say
please help
what can I do then

I'm just me
alone among many
and sometimes it feels like a lot
viel zu tun
to see
to listen
to believe

and what if nothing is right?
when nothing was actually true
just a string
even concatenation
of opinions and beliefs
but did anyway
what can we believe then
what is actually right

the many said
even written
but seldom meant
words of reason and insight
of courage and strength

what meaning is in them
if in the end nothing is right
but everything seems important
when the flood of news
unwavering, unscrupulous
like a wave
collapses on the screen

what value is in things
that happen far away
far from your own reality
seeming unreal, nothing at all
and yet so real and there
because they actually only
stringing together and chaining
of everything are

my thumb passes on
about the glass and the light
until it goes out
and so much more with him
all the opinions mine
they are right and important
and they are always important

but only if the others also apply
which one so gladly denies their validity
who are wrong and lied
drowned and the truth bent

but maybe nothing is a lie
maybe it will turn out exactly as it is now
in the headlines after headlines
keyword, printed in bold
callsigns, question marks, but never certainty
and yet certainty
unsettling and true
serious and there

go please, say the old ones
go please, the young ones despair