by Ositadimma Amakeze | |
Published on: Jan 12, 2007 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Cyber invasion Depersonalized personalities Asphyxiated in sophistication Of gruesomeness of cybernetics And like locust they besiege us Minds having been invaded to Reducible physical’ conception Thus consciousness comes to be Physical phenomena of physical man The cause and course of mutation Whereof we have no place In our world; ill-fated and Outwitted by imitation of nature Besides being enemies of Seicento-technical rationality Quite unfortunately For the product of man’s intelligence Is become the pestilence of humanity Could the ontological deference be, Of existence to effect extinction? For the geometric trepidation and Geographical disaster upon man Is terrifically an apocalypse See trees stand aghast As men are felled like woods The fallen shall be buried By the wounded and yet to be Who, or shall not machines Bury them when last badge of Men begin to die? Men have tagged men good for nothing as we are ousted out from sustenance by our own hands. We have enthroned the products of our hands and we worship them with our blood and lives. What is our rationality when instead of being masters to science and technology, we are servants to these. « return. |