Pixels and Programs

My electric friends,

Pixels and programs,

No kisses in the dark,

Lost in the lavender,

Chasing the lark.

Now I am dreaming,

Alone in the dark,

Just a lonely boy,

Collapsing in the park.

There is an easy way out,

If you despair,

But always remember,

You will forever be in my heart.

How soon until now,

While we are just,

Trying to be,

Safe and sound.

Our dances of energy,

A robotic lazy eye,

Always watching,

There is no way out.

Electrons flash invisibly,

They dash all around,

Power unbound.

We stare at our devices,

Looking for electric love.

I am the searcher,

I am the seeker,

I am the watcher,

Bearing witness and questioning,

Those in power.

I will keep waiting, persisting,

Within my bright blindness,

Lost in your screen,

Lost in my dream.

Love trumps hate any day,

One hundred and forty characters,

Is that all,

You have to say?

Someone please press reset,

I need reprogramming,

Now I am robotic,

You have to pay to play.

A clean slate,

A blank state,

Fill it with binary,

But do it with sympathy.

As we rush forward,

Our entropy increases,

In an isolated system,

Energy dissipates,

Lost to the the monolith.

© Colin Hope 2017.