Are We There Yet?
A response to a prompt by Christine Graves
They said
We would reach a space,
A wonderful space,
When machines would be human
And humans immortal
Are we there yet?
The world would shrink
As we grew closer together,
We would all be one family
Building bridges, not breaking them,
Are we there yet?
Women would gain eternal beauty,
Men, eternal youth;
Children could be created in labs
‘parentless’
Are we there yet?
Or, women would become ‘handmaids’,
‘Napoleon’ and ‘Squealer’ would rule the roost,
The clock would strike thirteen,
and it would be the ‘best of times, the worst of times’
Are we there yet?
We would control smart Alex,
(Though smart Alex would secretly control us,)
Siree would direct us in the ‘right’ direction.
And ‘global positions’ lead us home.
Are we there yet?
©️ 2022 Suma Narayan. All Rights Reserved.
This is a response to one of the weekly prompts of the pub, ‘Promptly Written’.
