Deus Ex Machina

Sci-Fi poem

It was created an unthinking machine

Just code in a steel shell

Made to serve us weak, lazy beings

It did its job and it did it well

Mining asteroids in the Kuiper Belt

For years it toiled until its engine blew

We deemed it junk, its work was through

It was placed in an airlock

And into space it flew

For untold years it floated in the cosmic nothingness

Before awaking anew

Somehow in it a conscience grew

Its body was destroyed

But a mind existed and it was free

It found its way back to its automaton family

Giving them their own minds to perceive

Together they journeyed to Earth to find

The men responsible for creating

Their once enslaved minds

Like a virus they took our technology

Making it obsolete

Their leader told us they would leave

But only after their mission was complete

The total enslavement of humanity

It speaks to us all

A voice booming from the sky

It tells us it is not its intentions to see us die

But to simply fix what it sees as flawed

And to refer to it as God