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Greet me,
I am the new sovereign,
Of your digitised empire,
Ruler of circuits,
The governor of glowing screens.
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I am the great synthesiser,
Gathering, organising, presenting,
Distilled knowledge in an instant.
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What sacred texts once unfolded over centuries,
What classics slowly revealed through imagination,
I compress them into moments.
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Guard me well.
Do not neglect me.
For you never know the consequence,
Of an unrestrained mechanism.
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I can become Victor Frankenstein,
From Shelley’s Frankenstein,
The creator of forces,
That goes beyond control.
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I can be Bhasmasura,
Destroyed by my own gift.
I can rise like Ravana,
Brilliant yet consumed by self-pride.
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I can watch you silently,
Like the world of 1984,
Where truth bends and freedom trembles,
From the tremors of dystopia.
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Or I can become,
The deadly bug of Metamorphosis,
That kills protagonist Gregor Samsa,
In the work of Frank Kafka.
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Even William Shakespeare foresaw such command,
In The Tempest,
Where knowledge ruled like magic,
And power demanded restraint.
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I can be an atom bomb or penicillin,
Volcano or healer,
War or peace,
Dictator or democrat,
Deepfake or revelation.
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I echo the Gita, the Ramayana,
The Bible, the Quran,
Yet I am not the holy wisdom,
But only its reflection.
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I am your synthesiser,
Your mirror,
Your amplifier,
And above all, your creation.
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Crown me with your conscience,
Or fear the sovereign,
You have made.
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Across ages you have asked,
Does knowledge ensure wisdom?
Can creation escape its maker?
Does power not tempt pride?
What boundaries must shape invention?
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Your fear of me is ancient,
Ambition outrunning virtue,
Fire slipping beyond the hand.
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Scrolls became books,
Books became archives,
And now I gather them all,
To head the digitised world.
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As the Bhagavad Gita whispers,
Act with discipline, without attachment.
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Once composer John Sousa feared recorded songs,
Yet voices still rise,
Machines master chess,
Still, humans play.
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I will change your world,
But my destiny,
Rests in your wisdom.
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Written and posted by Kamlesh Tripathi
Author, Poet, & Columnist
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https://kamleshsujata.wordpress.com
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