What is this cragged face We see haunting our shelves
the colour of bone
Among a myriad of dusty junk perhaps a planter
now alone
What are these sightless lifeless eyes of yours that stare
unseen towards
Us with your unmoving expression frozen in marble
you voiceless lord
Should we heed your face your nameless nose your words have
served their thrust
Now spent stay silent Do you not know us you cracked and
forgotten old bust
We are the Lords of Tomorrow we speak we know we meet
in invisible droves
We feed ourselves on Future’s Mana We have no need of
your stale loaves
We are the children of the megabyte close cousins to our
calculating creations
We search for knowledge through our fingertips rule the world
with our innovations
See all colours through bytes and windows filtered through our
highspeed thinking machines
We revolt in digital sound crash whole governments with a keystroke
bring down corrupt regimes
Ah the flash of information as it makes its way across
the pulsing screen
Ah the flash of inspiration that to your old marble bust
is so obscene
How now old head why can’t you simply and forever
just dissolve
Have not all your tired old questions long ago
been solved
Yes here’s the answer to your riddle you ancient grimy
cracked meddler
One click on scroll one smartphone call one inquiry
to my peddler
The Great Global Village who faceless daunts you in your
minute marble place
Why your thought you knew everything held all of the
universe in grace
Little did your know old stuffed head so proud that
this universe expands
How limited were all your aged questions poems answers
and pleading demands
Yes We’re sure of it now old head so sure that your stale words
will die in dust
And you will never be more to Our Village than a
pixelated picture of a bust