Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

Lonely Is Mech (Sad Robot)

it’s the other reality
on the other side tonight
no one warned me
I could be an implement
ignorant, unaware robot
taught torment in its gears
they oil and rub
as I move safely
into your neighborhood
at night, striding streets
at what you see out dusty windows
as foolish, arrogant pride.

gleam in street lamps
is a byproduct of ignorant joy
discovering space, empty
but for their machine
gobbling gone all your scenery
did you know rain and inactivity
Can cause a corrosive rust?
I’m thinking my creators gave up,
Constructing a new model
to gas and wind up

you look in your homes
I look under this hood
no place for either, restricted
from roaming to a vacant lot
the dock by the pond
the open field, chill dewed
as I make my way somewhere
no place is true home
robots neither sleep or dream
never need a master

I follow the horizon non-stop
wave and smile, can’t slow
as if I have somewhere to go
Oz? a fairy tale place before
I burn down with sunset?

Hello, I am Mech, a human
machination programmed to adapt
into your civilization. Error codes
I cannot resolve keep repeating.
Nothing left but abort,
self-destruct, another year
grinding, recharging a batter depleted.
they say the sun is friend
I can only go out at night


10.10.23
10.17.23