i press the buttons, i carve out the map. i water the flowers, i mix the soil. the buttons don’t work, the map doesn’t show me the direction. the flowers haven’t bloomed this season, the plant is still not humid. we have becomes a voiceless society. the most manpower and the most technology, the loss of energy, creativity and spirit. the voice has faded like a semi permanent tattoo etched in the previous edicts of time. the stones of civilisation had been laid, but the water tests our depth. the reef of originality used to tease us, oxygen; a valuable life currency. even more valuable than time. because without it, you cannot experience time. now it’s one foot in, and you’ve reached the depth. shallow shadows, clear paths.
this machine patented clarity is a loss for all. clarity that has brushed away the wild ways of tracing fingers across life’s board. we have all the power in the world. and yet, we do not have a voice anymore. we have all the resources in the world. and yet we do not have any purpose to use these resources. life has becomes a dead garden, where everything does bloom with fifteen fertilisers, but what role do we assume, when all we do is just manufacture them? when will the sunrise and the sunsets ever be human again? what does it even mean to be human anymore? does this poem even have its own voice, in the galaxy of big data, machines and algorithmic nosebleeds? that is for you, the reader to decide. the poet’s job is over.
a subtle rant on the loss creativity, human spirit and life’s magic in the age of data, machines and algorithms.