Robots
Break some minds to pieces
Affix to man-made machinery
Hot-wire desire and pride
Fuel with neurochemistry
Take some pieces of minds
Attach to anything new
A notion, a dogma, opinion
Bond with emotional glue
These are the robots we will build
To suit our will to never show
Time and time again, we won’t grow
Up to see beyond our fleeting thrill
To death to fight what we don’t know
A lot of the robots we’ll bestow
So who was fighting who—
Was it even me, or even you?
Or robot-to-robot in each other’s face—
The robots we sent to show in our place?
Our robots were there, still keeping score
Our robots were there, still making war
Pick from the heaps of hype
That with appearance of cause
Ignite with the spark of adrenaline
The unfriendly fire of flaws
Circuit boards of education
Screwed to lust for power to rule
Replace servanthood of a leader
With the arrogance of a fool
These are the robots we will build
To suit our will to never show
Time and time again, we won’t grow
Up to see beyond our fleeting thrill
To death to fight what we don’t know
A lot of the robots we’ll bestow
So who was fighting who—
Was it even me, or even you?
Or robot-to-robot in each other’s face—
The robots we sent to show in our place?
Our robots were there, still keeping score
Our robots were there, still making war
When we don’t know what it is
That makes us what we are
We build robots in our places
And fight our battles from afar
© 2004 J. “Xakk” Marshall (July 9, 2004 @ 5:15 AM)