Tin Man

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.