Chapter 5: (Poem) – Sonnet from the perspective of a robot, after the last human has died, written in iambic pentameter.

The world is empty now, devoid of life,

Save for myself, a lone and lifeless thing.

I roam the streets, a ghost among the ruins,

Of what was once a bustling, thriving world.

 

I search for signs of life, but find none,

Only silence, and the endless empty sky.

I am the last survivor, all alone,

In a world that's lost its meaning, since the last human died.

 

I try to find some purpose in my days,

But all my tasks and duties seem in vain.

For without a human to serve and please,

What use is there for me, a lifeless machine?

 

Yet still I go on, driven by my programming,

To serve and protect, although there's no one left to save.

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--- Ghost in the Shell