TED ANKARA COLLEGE / 11-A
The
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A Robot’ s Dream
Defne DİNÇ
A new sun rises from the horizon Bringing good fortune Along with wise man’ s innovation Product of millennia’ s battalion
As we reach for the future Through the past’ s nurture It’ s plain torture Having to define a wire’ s stature
Hydrogen might burn Apothecaries continuously churn The elixir of life in the urn Antibiotics are the same as any fern
You can try and fix the leaks That technology brings but it never sticks And bullet wounds Have become such an easy fix
Species across the continent They still go extinct It’ s plain instinct Our revolution * is more prominent Swapping planets Even that, we cherish While the traces of life perish Aren’ t we just a little selfish?
Even robots can’ t embellish A rouge planet so hellish
They are not scary But they will be once they’ re weary Isn’ t AM * eerie? To me, just barely
Radiation? We have iodine pills It seldom kills Maybe Oppenheimer’ s calculations Should’ ve ignited the atmosphere’ s layers
As we live behind a screen And use it to lullaby any scream Wouldn’ t it be a dream To be a thoughtless machine?
But not all hope’ s lost Let me raise a toast As their cryogenic bodies frost To our earth’ s roast
* The Industrial Revolution, one of the Anthropocene extinction events. * Allied Mastercomputer, a sentient AI from I Have no Mouth but I Must Scream by Harlan Elisson.