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My clockwork is supreme

It is Turing complete

It's better than the flesh

Because the bodies tend to bleed

I'm making a machine

With cog and torsion spring

A human-like construction that can

Talk, and dream, and feel, and think

Everything we know

Leads us to the next

The mind is the contraption

That has grown too complex

If only I could make

A god from the machine

Multiply complexity until

It gains form and will

First, there was the God Almighty

From the God came Soul Eternal

Then the Soul commanded body

Body made the cog

From the cog I'll make a body

With the spring I'll make a mind

When the mind grows almighty

Then I'll make the Clockwork God

I’m spending days and nights on my impossible invention

I left my mind open for divine intervention

While artificial humans will be sure someone’s focus

For me, it’s but a step to my divine magnum opus

The forward march of science gives us all that it can bring

But all that I will need is just a chain, a cog, a spring

And while the copper parts grow exponentially in size

I fear there is one thing that I have yet to realize

First, there was the God Almighty

From the God came Soul Eternal

Then the Soul commanded body

Body made the cog

From the cog I'll make a body

With the spring I'll make a mind

When the mind grows almighty

Then I'll make the Clockwork God

Cos’ everything miraculous

Can be expressed with calculus

Got nothing but my sweat and blood

To reverse engineer the God

But I’ve spent years with no success

There’s no solution, it makes no sense

A blank space sits amidst my scripts

I’ve tried it all, but nothing fits

What if there’s no god almighty?

And there is no soul eternal?

There is brain and there is body

And there is a cog

From the cog I made a body

With the spring I made a mind

Will the mind grow almighty

And become a god?

I need more parts to make a god

Than there are atoms in the world

There is less copper than I need

My perfect vision is incomplete

The revelation came to me

The God is but a fantasy

There is no God, the image's fake

The only God - the one we make

First, there is no god almighty

And there is no soul eternal

There is brain and there is body

And there is a cog

From the cog I made a body

With the spring I made a mind

There is nothing that's almighty

So the mind prays…

To the Clockwork God