Inspired by science fiction
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What would life be like if we were all machines?
Manmade and engineered for perfection
No heart, no soul, no layers, no seams
A carefully mastered confection
No genes to set us apart
A flawless being from the start
No hardships, no challenge
How would we would manage?
An existence controlled by desire
Everything you ever dreamed
Spreading like fire
Becoming part of your existence
To take you higher
The love, power and beauty
Always wanted but never fully attained
Shallow love if it's there at all
Power from which soon you will fall
Health and beauty...living a lie
Living a nightmare
But you'd never die
Perfect in body
But emotionally void
With your life
Someone had toyed
It would be immoral
To live on knowing
That you never were conceived
But made to be perfect
Cause your parents believed
That if you were "just normal"
They'd be deceived
Of the "son" or "daughter"
Or "ALIEN" as it were
The best in the world
They could conjure
Without the act of love
Without affection or fate
If and when this ever happened
It would be too late
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Comments
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I think this is really clever and it holds a lot of truths. To be honest, humanity is ALWAYS striving for perfection. But this raises some really good points. I enjoyed the rhyme to it, not overpowering but a very nice touch.
Excellent work, I hope to read more quality poems such as this in the future.
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haha, I'm surprised at such the positive response to all my OLD poems... this was written way back in 2001 and I almost didn't post it here. I hardly write rhyme anymore, what I write now is quite different than this.
Thanks for your nice comment...
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