Inevitable

We can't escape.
All of you, every last one of you,
You see what I see.

Barricading ourselves from interactions which define us as living things,
Lurking about on a specimen of actual existence,
The reprogramming thrives.

We lose signs of humanity,
Developing, yet self-destructing in our fatal addictions,
All for the sake of imprisonment?

What is this,
But none other than that of a mental cage,
Prepared to lock us in from the moment we made the error of interest.

I feel it, you feel it,
As you read, eyes burning into the very screen that claims you,
The trickery of the computer overrides.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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