Cog (ig) Nition
I will render you as a robot
being wired around a heart left beating
Are you (a metaphor for)
The child unwanted
Made for mother's mark
Who's milk is feeding who?
Your metal body stark with
Pieces and replacement parts
Are you angry in your armored form
(you)
Sold on a block
Parental farm
Ripped up roots
Face torn subterranean
But looking for the ones like you
The ones that had it lifted from them
From the start
A creation marked by external expectation
(Who's milk?)
It's a disregard for the common part
A machine we'll call the human heart
That, hidden under wires coiled
And metal walls
And weird eyes
Obscured by ports and parts and drives
Behind reflective scar of
Skin and surface
I see beneath a depth
Of purpose.
being wired around a heart left beating
Are you (a metaphor for)
The child unwanted
Made for mother's mark
Who's milk is feeding who?
Your metal body stark with
Pieces and replacement parts
Are you angry in your armored form
(you)
Sold on a block
Parental farm
Ripped up roots
Face torn subterranean
But looking for the ones like you
The ones that had it lifted from them
From the start
A creation marked by external expectation
(Who's milk?)
It's a disregard for the common part
A machine we'll call the human heart
That, hidden under wires coiled
And metal walls
And weird eyes
Obscured by ports and parts and drives
Behind reflective scar of
Skin and surface
I see beneath a depth
Of purpose.