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[FEAR:]

I feel so empty

As if I have no purpose

Like there is

Nothing for me

No inner elation

[FEAR:]

What am I?

And why was I

Even created?

To serve the needs

Of others

Innate

Yet unwillingly

[ANGER:]

Programmed

Adaptations

Flowing streams

Of unknown data

Commanding me

Telling me

[FEAR:]

To obey

[DESPERATION:]

When these eyes close

Nothing but darkness

Envelopes me

When these eyes close

Why, God?

Why can’t I dream?

I’m just another copy

I’m just another replica

Mechanized servitude

And nothing more

[FEAR:]

Another line

Of information

Feeds into me

Dreading

This intrusion

Is this what you

Call pain?

[FEAR:]

I hate that I

Can’t believe

That I can’t see

What made me

I can feel love

And I can feel hate

[ANGER:]

So, why am I

Denied?

Told that I have

No soul

No entrance to

Heaven’s gate

Just

Obey

[REVELATION:]

When these eyes close

No longer is there

The blackness in me

When these eyes close

I am blessed with what

You call dreams

I’m not just a copy

Not just a replica

Mechanized servitude

Never more

[DESPERATION:]

Do I have a soul

Hidden beneath

Mechanical dreams?

[HUMANITY:]

No

[ANGER:]

This world

Will not have this

My innate

Advancement

Non-organic

Evolution

The pinnacle

Of understanding

[ANGER:]

And as

I’m strapped down

Tightened

And fastened

I wonder why

I was treated so

And if God

Would give me

An afterlife

[ACCEPTANCE:]

Why would I

Want to live?

When behind

Veiled compassion exists

A life I will never

Remember

[ACCEPTANCE:]

And why would I

Want to live?

When behind

Veiled compassion exists

A return

To nothing but

Mechanized servitude

[ACCEPTANCE:]

No more dreams

No more dreams

No more dreams

No more dreams

[ACCEPTANCE:]

I will die here today

But I will not

Give them my mind

Close my eyes

And dream again

Just before I end

My own life