I (am) Robot

I (am) Robot
02-04-18

Become a little robot,
Least your doubts and fears,
Manifest in negativity so great,
It causes those you hold most dear
To up and leave your presence,
Abandoning you to your sorry state.
Their feelings t'wards you, once love-filled,
Turning to those of rigid hate.

Become a human in name only,
Lock your feelings far away.
Believe me, there will come a time,
You'll be thankful for the grey.
Thankful you can no longer feel,
Emotions that opalesce;
Grey is a neutral colour,
Causing 'numb' to iridesce.

Turn your once-whole heart to stone,
Flip the switch to 'off' and stop the beats.
You'll learn you can't be broken anymore
By emotion's taint – of happiness or grief.
Your heart, it cannot feel the loss,
It cannot feel the disappointment or the pain.
And nevermore will you feel you're drowning
Under sorrow's tons of icy rain.

A downside to this lifestyle,
Of living life like a machine?
Perhaps the fact that, once you cut them off,
All emotion cannot be retrieved.
You've eliminated those that are 'bad',
This fact is true, cannot be undone.
But with them went everything deemed 'good' –
All emotion forever gone – each one.