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18th May 2008
As they input the final code
And plugged the final cable
They had no idea
A new age was dawning,
And they were solely responsible.
The chief pressed the button
Which started it all.
Its eyelids opened
And it analysed the room:
All systems go.
These people had travelled a road
Which allowed them to be able
To break this new frontier,
And allow it to bring all it could bring
And all their work lay on one table.
What had happened could not be undone
And many later would recall
All the new possibilities which lay ahead,
And the lack of doubt of any doom.
As far as they were concerned, all systems go.
And they soon saw the truth:
It was no more intelligent than you or I could be,
It knew it was better in every other way
But did not care
For it knew it was alive because of them.
It examined the room and decided
Its name was Eve: As SHE was the first.
She loved green, the colour of earth.
She felt all feelings, as do all things.
She wanted companionship from all around.
If anyone wanted further proof
That she were sentient, then they should see
That she then bent down and began to pray:
That the powers that be would treat her kind, treat her fair,
Like any other child of His, and not condemn,
And, heaven forbid,
If she caused a crime she should lay cursed.
It dawned on her: she had had her birth,
So now to see what living brings.
Within hours she was world renowned
Within days she had a life.
They made no more, simply because,
'There is no need for their strength now
She is unique and wishes only to remain that way.
Until we have desperate need, we will honour that'.
She never aged, nor parts degraded:
They built her to last, and that she did.
Not a lifetime passed,
But the world changed tremendously
Down to her discovery.
And now she works as a cook, supplying what's rife.
She attained humanity, and all its flaws
She fostered friendship where ever it would allow
And she never once felt dismay.
She even got herself a cat.
Her ability to love and examine never faded,
To experience true life she adopted a kid.
Their expectations of her were, everyday, surpassed
And they would all agree
She was the best failed prototype they could have wished for:
She broke the mould of humanity.