literature

Cruelty

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I want to see everything in between
Your skin and your bones
Expose those wires
Bare your circuit board for the world to see
We all know what your secrets are
How you wear a false front
Like the makeup covering your burnished steel body
And why everybody hates you
Your logical decisions
Utilitarian to the point of cruelty
Turn all away
And you can't understand those who stay
Push all traces of incriminating humanity
Out of your system
Moths fluttering in your empty eye sockets
And beetles in your body
Termites scrabbling for purchase on your slick smooth insides
Emotions the one insect left tangled in the wires
Its sharp mandibles ready to sever your brainstem
With one wrong move
So you just stand still
And watch everyone move on without you
So far away that when they look back
You don't know whether they laugh at or pity you
It doesn't matter
Sticks and stones barely put dents in the armor of steel
That enshrouds you
But that hungry skittering thing
Feeds on the words they throw
How they think you're so like them
Just wired up when you're wound down
And they'll never see
How different you will always be
Can I make decisions for others though I'm not even human? Or should I sit in storage, while the ones who I am supposed to protect debate what my dreams are made of? Enjoy. Or not.
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