An Enigma Alan Turing
An Enigma Alan Turing
My secret has been finally revealed,
Which so pained my rainbow heart,
It was an illegal love I had concealed,
My life was over before it could start.
My Love began with Lovelace and Babbage,
King and queen of computer science.
The Enigma machine I invented,
Only then to be savagely mistreated.
The irony, as I was castrated by science .
I saved many lives in the Second World War,
An Enigma machine deciphering enemy codes,
Intercepting vital messages, and so
Prematurely ending the war.
But in shame, my life was about to explode .
After the war a lecturer I soon became,
My passion for bow tie, and not for a dress,
A lover stole from me a precious heirloom,
But it was I they found guilty without redress.
That was my first crime, of being so blind,
That justice was just, and I would be fine.
Snow White would be my second crime,
And with the apple we both sat and dined.
I had a strange fascination with Disney's Snow White,
So I laced the green apple with cyanide to bite,
My life was over, after the millions I had saved,
I was only a young man, 41, when put in a grave.
A royal pardon I received from the Queen in 2013,
A blue plaque was erected in Trumptington Street,
I waited longer for a pardon than I had ever lived.
My life covered up with lies, and a bitter deceit.
The second irony was the German Brothers Grimm,
The writers of fairytales and my passion Snow White,
My destruction of Germany went to the heart of Berlin.
And my name is of course no enigma, it's Alan Turing.
Our hearts all beat blue red, but justice was clear,
I was ridiculed and demonised for living my life.
I was a man of rainbow colours, I didn't belong to my world,
Even though millions of lives were saved, my life held no worth.
I was a human, who saved humans,who loved humans,
But my voice, my heart, my love, my life, was taken away.
For what ? For being so different to you ?
Foot Note :
Charles Babbage was a polymath born in 1791
He originated the concept of a digital programmable computer
He is considered the father of the computer .
After reporting a lover to the police for stealing a watch, they, the police were only interested in pursuing a conviction against Alan Turing for being gay , which was a crime in the UK , Turing could either serve time in jail or be chemically castrated. he chose the later and committed suicide as a consequence. Rumours years later said that the bite from Turing's Apple inspired the Apple logo , but Steve Jobs dismissed this rumour as coincidence.
Ada Lovelace or Countess Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron the poet
She was the worlds first computer programmer and was born in 1815
She was one of the greatest mathematicians of her time and worked on the Analytical Engine.
Babbage and Lovelace worked closely together regards computer science and would have influenced one of worlds greatest mathematicians and code breakers Alan Turing .
Alan Turing's nickname at Bletchley was the professor , and historians believe because of his invention the enigma machine ended World War 2 by up to 2 years . That's a lot of lives , if ever a legend existed , surely Alan Turing is one such legend .
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Daniel Caplin
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