Wednesday, 4 August 2021

Digital-era-binary -poem

The code contaminates my screen a blast of ones and zeroes and all I see for miles around is the train of numbers converted into words like some secret message that never says what I want it to say, i know two numbers, one and zero though the two' can't exist here, the inclusion of an additional element becomes a necessary evil for zero once paired becomes a paradox resulting from three instances of enumeration This is life as we know it. On emails, on text, Staring blankly at the screen Calculating '0's and '1's making up the backbone of confessions and complaints of love and loss, 01101110 01100001 01101101 01100001 whirlwind of emotions as "Namasthe" this is the epitome of manners in the digital world, I'm sorry I didn’t keep my promise, I’m sorry I hurt you. 01110011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01111001 Sorry, the hardest word to say, merely has 5 letters and 40 digits. 01110100,01101000,01100001,01101110,01101011,01110011 The string is “thanx”, a word defined to be “an expression of gratitude”.... Gratitude for your help, we all express our feelings through permutations of the same 2 digits, One speaks of new life and hope, one is sunshine and warmth, the other grief and solace. The picture of being with someone’s loved ones in ups and downs, 01101110 01100101 01110111 used when one’s boss assigns a new project when one’s teacher assigns more homework, on top of the 50 others one already has. leading us to the 32-digit word that encapsulates everything: 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100101 This is "life", as we know it!

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