This poem is published in poetry collection Paradise Beyond Pulse (2026).
Digital Silos
Digital silos
rose overnight.
You got sorted
for safety.
Before you even knew
you’d been divided—
into categories
too narrow
to hold anything human.
Digital silos,
quiet towers
made of data.
Soft, scrollable walls
that never needed
to be guarded.
You got secured,
archived between lines,
unnamed,
unmissed,
and unfamed—
until one day,
from the tight box
called safety,
secured in the clouds,
you finally raised
your frozen gaze.
©2026 Samia Oldman
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Hush Halo is a dystopian sci-fi poetry collection set in a near-future shaped by technology, silence, and optimized perfection. Each poem is paired with a unique soundscape created by poet, in Suno. Learn more in Square One.
Context: After the Great Optimization, a privileged group integrated into the system, believing they had now perfected themselves.
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Beautiful work, inspiring
This reminded me about Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel, somehow—and then I re-read the title and realized that I wasn’t too far off 😊