Robots

People can be so thoughtless and careless, looking the other way when others are in need. We are humans, we should care... not look away from one's dispair.

The robots do their daily dance

Wandering around in straight lines as they pass

Programmed, issued into boxes

No minds of their own, the robots they dance

 

One stumbles and falls, broken down on the ground

Need of repair, need for help but they don't even stare

Just continue their dance, they wander around in straight, perfect lines

Programmed to ignore, programmed to just get by

 

Broken and fading, the robot awakens

Her programming is glitched, she rises to her feet

Still broken but alive, searching for help and stumbles

She calls to the others, but their programs tell them "walk"

 

Astonished, she continues, bleeding and falling

"Help," she calls but no one hears, they've been programmed not to go near

Infuriated she cries as she slowly, painfully dies

"Why won't anyone help?" she wonders aloud

 

No one blinks, no one cares.  They all act as if she isn't there

As the robots continue their daily dance

Wandering around in straight lines as they pass

No minds of their own, the robots they dance their cold pale dance

 

Drifting into silence, she falls to the ground

Trampled over by the robots, she makes no sound

Their eyes, they keep forward and steady walk

Back to their boxes, none do they talk

 

As one of them falls, they ignore it all

For they are robots, watch them recite

Their daily routine, straight lines

Programmed over and over and issued into boxes

 

One huge mass, never a thought does pass

When one suffers, no mind to tell them otherwise

To lend a helping hand, no passion or care

For anything but their straight lines

 

Reviews

[Night Walker]

The poem gives an interesting view on the way people act. It is true that most people will pass on by if the feel that it doesn't concern them. Your use of the robot comparison was intriguing, and you did a good job of backing it up. It was a well written poem.

[Tallulah]

Such a beautiful poem. This has such a strong powerful message in it. It was so sad. It hold so much truth though. I like the refrence of robots it makes such a strong statement. I love it.