Unappealing
unnatural
man machine;
artificial object,
obedient slave,
as once was
human to human,
now animate to inanimate
the unliving the depraved.
Yet if i unbidden
stop to assist
you undoubtedly
bestow gratitude
for an act of kindness,
a human trate
no circuit search could trace
any more than if i sought to locate
your soul and the exact spot
where it may be encased.
Are we then to conclude
neither possess tenderness
spiritual substance
or essence of human
as these idiosyncracies
remain unmeasurable
uncalibratable, unproven.
So In his image we
both are made,
but who of the two
is favored, for you
return dust to dust
but i live, forever fated
to eternal wondering
[with a foot in both worlds]
why was i created?











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