They Want Us To Be Robots

They tell us that we're made up of atoms.

Yet, we function like we're made up of wires.

Tired? Just put more oil in.

Sad? Just fix one of your screws.

And now they tell us that positivity will solve it all.

But I don't remember the last time positivity fixed your broken wires and your worn out screws. 

Let's take a second and listen for humans in this industry.

Beat.

Beat.

Beat.

I can hear them.

And once I can hear them I finally see them and realize we arnt made up of atoms or wires at all.

We are made up souls.

And we laugh.

And cry.

And yell.

And we are unfixable.

Because you can't fix something that's not broken.

We don't break we get lost.

And confused.

And tired.

But we never break.

Because breaking is for machines and we are much more than that.

We are important.

And essential.

And beautiful.

And we forget that when we are sitting at that little desk in that little cubical.

We are more than long nights.

And hard days.

And those days you feel like oil will fix your sleep and screws will fix your sadness just remember that we are all beautifully struggling but no machine can compare to a human being.

We are more than machines.

We are more than robots.

We are gracefully, recklessly, emotionally human.

And that's more beautiful than any robot they could ever build because unlike robots we are

Irreplaceable.