100-Year Visitor

I am a robot/hybrid scientist Observing your planet every one hundred years I have noted your city states become kingdoms And then your kingdoms develop to become empires I've seen your flags gleam with shimmering pride Recently overshadowed by the banner of technology It appears you have no resistance to assimilation Now more and more you depend upon machines I have noted that you trust in your computers Far more than you will ever trust in each other And now your empire has become a technocracy Inevitably each of you has become only a number I am making a notation for the next time I pass Is this inevitably the way it always has to be? See, I’ve heard my ancestors used to love one another And now I wonder if you will become as lonely as me