Human(oid) Robots

They tried, wired, and rewired—
To build a humanoid robot:
Defining tasks, programming actions,
Teaching different languages and navigations.
Measuring its learning:
Rate of memory absorption,
Speed of computing,
Hours of productivity,
Time for recharging.

Until they realized,
They could make robots of humans.
If one human can turn a cog of a wheel,
100 humans can turn a wheel,
1 million humans can speed up the Earth’s rotation,
100 million humans can accelerate the Earth’s revolution!

So they lure us:
20 years of learning,
40 years of producing,
Rewarding us with scores and crores—
These carrots dangle before our eyes,
Ensuring our wilful surrender.
Collective human robots,
With a common goal,
Of dying within – for physical existence
To create an Earth that is unlike Earth!
Also published at: https://iselemagazine.com/2023/08/30/two-poems-savitha/