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We've all seen when science steps in;
It's anything goes with that lot,
There's no honor for tradition.
It's all talk about extinction
Replaced by new order, new world
Everything shiny clean and new
And supposedly much better.
When did we start to think of how
There wasn't enough to explore,
To keep our hands and minds busy,
To question everything of ours
And think that we could improve "it"?
On the contrary, "it" can't wait
To abandon the idea,
And never bothers to ask me
As most times it knows I agree.
Why should we care? I know I don't,
Driving with the sun in my eyes.
When I utter its name aloud
The single syllable thunders,
And I'm put right back in my place.
It's mine, you know, and so is yours.
I'll never plan to sell it out,
Nor put it on a bucket list
And see it naked 'neath a lens
To have it dissected again.
It's the only one of its kind,
The best thing that was given me
That jump started my chance at life.
I forget sometimes, once or twice,
But not whenever this is read:
That science is not meant to touch
Or covet, cleave, or count or clone,
Please leave my soul and I alone.
Published 14th May 2017
| Edited 20th Jan 2018
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14th May 2017 2:03pm
as if take my organs was not enough, i donated my poetry to science in year 8 and afta m gone they'll keep gettin new secrets revealed- that is for another day, you write good, lady pandora.
14th May 2017 2:18pm
Thanks, walker, I appreciate you stopping by to read & comment. And welcome to DUP.
14th May 2017 5:29pm
A great entry for the 'Leave Your Soul To Science', Jade.
With the strong push to legitimise transhumanism and make it sound "normal" and desirable (evolution speeded up by technology as a moral imperative, just because it's technically possible) the counter-sentiment so well articulated in your poem needs to be heard loud and clear. Thank you for doing so.
With the strong push to legitimise transhumanism and make it sound "normal" and desirable (evolution speeded up by technology as a moral imperative, just because it's technically possible) the counter-sentiment so well articulated in your poem needs to be heard loud and clear. Thank you for doing so.
Thank you so very much for the recommendation, and your response so succinctly put, and yes, my write is absolutely counter-sentiment. And you're most welcome.
14th May 2017 6:40pm
Though IT is within everyone, some of us
Have IT in great abundance...inked this with absolute perfection dear lady...
Have IT in great abundance...inked this with absolute perfection dear lady...
Thank you kind sir, I'm grateful for your visit to read my humble write, and share your thoughts with me.
16th May 2017 2:48pm
I sometimes feel that - like certain primitive tribes and photography - the amount of science and technology that fills and occupies my life is somehow eating little pieces of my soul in the process...
Then again - I get to read these wonderful poets - and I think like most tools, it's not the tool itself, but how it is used that counts...
Brava! jadey
Then again - I get to read these wonderful poets - and I think like most tools, it's not the tool itself, but how it is used that counts...
Brava! jadey
I can't thank you enough, thomcat, for your gracious and on-point thoughts & observations! I'm so glad you got to get in your words before heading off for another hectic day. Hope to talk to you later.
*tiger smile*
*tiger smile*
