🃏 Adulthood 🃏

♣️ Robot ♣️

- Robot
(Poem by me)

"You are just like a robot!"
You are the reason why I feel distraught
"Do not talk back, social reject"
Why must all your words be so direct?

Programmed to obey all commands
Doing anything you will demand
Unable to go against the system protocol
You say my stupidity will be my downfall

Stiff tone, weird word choice
You will never listen to my voice
There is barely anything I can show
Too much cache makes my system slow

I cannot eat, I feel too frustrated
Why must my future be ill fated?
"Your existence is but a mere thought
I could easily end it with one gun shot"

Trouble identifying my own emotions
Confused by my body's sensations
I do feel, but I cannot communicate
My system was coded not to contemplate

My emotions are too big for me to express
You ignore that and continue to oppress
Uninsightful, I approach social situations
I experience no life satisfaction

Corrupted data causing malfunctions
I am a monster in your assumptions
Rebooting my memory will not save me
As I will never be truly free

Running a diagnostic
"Your words do not need to be symbolic"
I discover my audio processor is broken
"Oh see, the fool has yet again spoken"

"You are too sensitive"
Why must you always be so negative?
"What nonsense are you saying?"
My memories are always replaying

I cannot control it
My senses are overloaded
"You are nothing like us
You go against the norms, you must adjust"

"Social reject, tell me
What are you trying to be?
Why must you be so weird?
Why are we feared?"

"Social reject, look into my eyes
While you get antagonised
Look at me, when I am talking to you!
Or else I will spread words that are not true"

"Social reject, do not flee into your room
When I start to assume
So that you get overwhelmed
And still, at the end you are condemned"

"We all have to fight, so why do you not?
Do you wish to die alone and rot?
Pathetic, how you always give up
It is always so abrupt"

"Talk when I am asking you something!
Your attitude is extremely annoying!
Silence will not solve all your troubles!
You cannot just leave when you struggle!"

"Little brat, you had it too easy"
Why must you hate me?
"Now I must beat you to teach"
What is it that you want to achieve?

I cannot recognise your emotions
All I know is ultimate devotion
So I cannot respond appropriately
Which makes you respond harshly

Everything I experience is just emulated
Perhaps it is now outdated
The program I have installed
"You think you are above us all"

Logical approach to every situation
It does not account for emotions
Rigid like the machine that I am
I just execute my program

Analysing and observing everyone
I cannot fight, I must run
Lines of code determining my actions
Hiding at any given distraction

I am humourless and distant
You grow impatient
I watch my peers experience joy
As you only wish to destroy

Cold and always calculating
You find me to be aggravating
I cannot get harmed, only damaged
Your commands shall not get challenged

I am not sentient
On your tasks I am dependant
As I can only follow orders
To mercy, I am a foreigner

Not designed to feel
I only know to kneel
Detached, I am only AI
I am not alive, I cannot die

Then am I not superior to your weakness?
But still you put me through distress
Does not matter, to you I am nothing
I wish you were a little more loving

[Written in: 18/05/2023]