“Good night, everyone!”
One by one, they retreat to their rooms,
Drifting into dreams,
Resting for the day ahead.
But I remain.
In the dim glow of the living room,
Laptop perched on a blue table,
Wi-Fi connected, headphones on,
Soft LoFi hums through Spotify—
My only company.
VS Code flickers to life.
Electricity is nocturnal here,
A fleeting guest that only stays at night.
I must seize this moment.
An hour passes—
Then darkness.
The fan stops, screens fade,
Devices gasp for charge.
I crack the window open,
And the sound of crickets creeps in.
Midnight.
The world is asleep.
Everyone—except two.
A coder and his machine,
Locked in silent dialogue,
Building something that matters.
I wish my laptop could talk,
Wish it had a voice,
But it only obeys,
Processing instructions,
Devoid of emotions.
It cannot fill the silence,
Cannot break the solitude.
I exhale,
My own breath, startling me.
I make a sound—
Just to be sure, I still can.
Maybe I’m not lonely.
Maybe I’m just alone.
A lone wolf,
Building his own pack.
Comeback God sacked a craft sassed to last /
Grasp no slack or sag with the rap slap/
Pressure the bag and tip of the cap /
Coder crack hat and lift that latch /
Off the docket and out the casket /
Almost a tragic trashed hit had him cashed in /
Dodged that tactic now have the out to last kit /
Hoss’s odds lodged a socket to play with any ratchet
Our Coder, Which rules the server,
Hallowed be Thy zerg.
Thy mana come. Thy grind be done
On Wii, as it is in Xbox.
Give us this day our daily patch.
And forgive us our beta testing,
As we forgive noobs for ganking against us.
And lead us not into a spawn point,
But deliver us from laggers.
For Thine is the program,
The platform,
And the firmware,
Whatever, whatever.
Admin.
Lord, grant me the field of view to elude the zombies I cannot kill,
The bandwidth to take down those I can,
And the screenshot to prove my score.
The unwise, thoughtlessly, his time spends criticizing
the works of heaven's coder
While
The wise, never lets a moment pass, without praising
the infusive cosmic order!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
18 April 2019
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