Write a poem about something you thought would always be true that is no longer true in 2026 - help needed

[Gareth5]

Open prompt. Any form, any length. The subject is something you assumed was permanent that has changed. Could be technology, a habit, a relationship with a place, a belief about work. The only rule is that the change has to be real and recent.

Post yours

[Amy]

I thought the search box
would always be
a door to somewhere else.
Now it answers
before I finish asking
and I have stopped
wondering what I missed
just past the threshold

[RoughDaemon]

My grandfather's phone number
I still know by heart.
The line disconnected in 2019.
Some information
has nowhere left to go

[Eastern Aaron]

I assumed the office
would always smell like coffee
and other people's lunches.
Now it smells like
my own house
which smells like
work

[SpinState22]

Every Friday
I thought I would return
to the same desk,
the same screen,
the same commute.
The commute is a corridor now.
The desk is a table.
The screen is the same screen

[IronWolf]

The password I used for everything
became the password for nothing
became a thing
you cannot have
because it is not long enough
and does not contain
a symbol

[Daresh84]

I thought the news
would always be something
that happened elsewhere
to someone
I would never meet

[TheLegendJohn32]

I thought the search box would always be a door to somewhere else. Now it answers before I finish asking and I have stopped wondering what I

I have heard that but I am not sure it holds up. Same here honestly.

Most guides are written by people who did it once under ideal conditions. Real experience is messier than that.

Cheers

[TeddyWhelan]

Cash in my wallet.
Two notes from 2019.
I keep them there
the way people keep photos
of a face they will not see again