Blackout

Landfill of avant-garde

Renaissance walls marred

by progressive graffiti

classical culture cried from pity.

Law of physics dictates

technology conflates

polar opposites avowedly attract

hard to preserve thoughts intact.

Physical phenomena attack

mediated by magnetic fields

negating protective shields

neural cables turn slack.

First contact with a device

branded the cattle with a mark

machinery the brains entice

pet gadgets of the heart.

Industrialised lifestyle unbreakable

flashing screens unshakeable

flip the switch to off

go dark in a layoff

seconds later afraid in the dark

fumbling for voltage

the charger of groove

procrastination trends our daily dosage

internal frown ostensibly they remove.

Over with the scrap metal of dishonesty

the inexcusable vagaries of electricity

refusal to grant magnetism amnesty

afraid to conform to its shape of ellipticity.

Powerful the energy currents

turning ferrous hearts to servants

toys in static's clutches

static it shocks whatever touches.

Felt same shooting pain before

avoid the stinging repercussion

cannot afford the after effects anymore

emotionally will not bear another concussion.

Latest contraptions appear

announcements make it crystal-clear

we are powerless to turn away from you

while around you we turn see-through

our mental malfunctions are fixed

there is an uncanny chemistry betwixt.

Automation we permit you to close our circuit

fallen for the newest gear like biscuit

turns our motors on to whir

overused fan blades have thinned sheer

hence back to the magnetite status

against technology no counter-apparatus.

Drawn closer to innovation per second

its pulsation tries to beckon

spontaneously me changed into electron

I briefly echo with its nucleus

chain reaction possibly insalubrious

permanently morphing me to lodestone

resulting in a meltdown, unstable and alone.

I am begging you updates

on hands and knees

do not forsake the furless primates

do not let our insides freeze

do not block us from wireless connection

we have grown dependent on nanite infection

we have striven for this configuration

fought our way through orbital approximation.

Some tech savant cracks the programme

decrypts the data and sees the sham

algorithm formulas in reverse

historical wavelength polarised and transverse

ray tracing behaviourist of propagation

logic and the soul in a state of prostration.

Daedalus the ancient Greek craftsman innovator
Minotaur's prison, the Labyrinth's creator
kept the irreverent splice under wraps
Moloch in reprisal Icarus infected melting his flaps
with synthetic arrogance of transgression
signifying the start of axial precession.

A blackout is all it takes
civilisation shakes and crumbles
agony races with cut brakes
urbanisation in shambles
a pompous populace
robbed of virtual solace
judgement's lapse
imminent collapse.