Paranoid Android
He was never sure about the dream,
But surely he was there and staring through the gleam.
Still alive with point-blank shots,
Yet dreaming the dream he never forgot.
A monkey clung since he was small,
Orbiting him, unshaken, tall.
His eyes evolved, genes run twisted, they cut through lies,
Seeing truths the world denies.
Great empires fall, their lessons fade,
Their histories lost, their debts unpaid.
They teach the young with blinded eyes,
And bury the truth beneath their lies.
Heliocentrism left to rust,
Da Vinci’s demons turned to dust.
They scream of warming, loud & proud,
But forget the soul-eating mushroom clouds.
Did the Führer fall? Or merely hide?
He & Fatman still laughs on Samurai’s land.
And what of Mars, when breath is clean?
They’ll clone the ghosts, repeat the sin.
Bosons, leptons, quarks all crave to sing,
But colours, tongues, and gods have drawn their lines.
Walls are drowning in Save the trees, save green!
Beyond the walls, they are crafting more banners with careless hands.
How can one feel the scars on souls,
By walking tall on beasts untamed?
His all makibishi swallowed by dragons that fly,
Still he roars, with a broken sword raised high.
He longed to return, to turn back time,
To feast on liars, to cleanse the crime.
To drink the blood that poisoned years,
And silence the echoes of shattered fears.
Vipul Arwade
01.09.2025
