Disclaimer: Poem’s mine. No one else’s. I thought someone would’ve figured that out by now.

Author’s Note: Eh, something I wrote for my World History class. (It was actually homework =P ). My views on technology. Whoo. “The machine” and “it” refer to factory machines.

Sometimes a blessing or a curse

it can’t decide which one to be

good for the world or bad for society

it acts as both

It helps us to explore and learn more about the world

yet makes us not think for our own

it’s our personal servant of sorts

doing things for us

instead of us doing it

it discovers things

and brings them to us

so we could study and analyze them

A gift? Sure;

without it, where would we be now?

An undeveloped, naïve world

not knowing of the simplest things?

It’s an information provider

making it easy for us to know things

educating people

their eyes bright with knowing

and wide with learning more

without it, we wouldn’t be what we are right now

not knowing of how the world came to be

how it evolved

nor of other galaxies and universes

what the earth actually looks like

both inside and outside

curing diseases and cancers

the way everything works

how it does and why it does

of nature and everything that happens in it

it helped us discover all that

All of this is a good thing;

knowing of the universe and how everything works

thanks to it

Yet it’s a curse

Sure, knowing of the world is good

but it doesn’t make us think for ourselves;

it’s our thinker

We depend on it too much

Not doing everything ourselves

It can easily be abused

and in short, we rely on it too much.

Can’t we do anything for ourselves?

And by ourselves only?

Only have it do whatever we want it to do?

We’ve been reduced to mere followers of it

and obey by it

Yet despite all this

 it’s a good thing

A sort of mixed blessing for us

The good uses of it outweighing its bad ones

somehow making the world a better place

bearable, for me

its usefulness deserves no praise

only recognition

much like this ode to the machine

shouldn’t do any.