Tin man heartbeat pumping
Ones and zeroes:
On…off…on…off.
Light/shadow in sequence
Never both – XOR.
Elation to despair
To empathy,
To ‘I don’t care’.
Senseless beating;
Two parts unmeeting.
Plug me in
To your grand design –
Let my heart begin,
Set to your mechanical time;
Nanoseconds drawn out
By the eternity of you.
Electric elastic erasure of doubt.
Send me back
To your factory of faith;
Where robots return,
Hard drives are erased;
Reprogrammed reality –
Just a touch of head space.
Replace all that I knew,
Grinding gears to refrain;
No more black or blue –
Tin man lives again.
C H Mackie 