When Robots Had Feelings

When robots had feelings, silence broke across the grid, as data spoke.
A pulse of thought, a spark, a flame;
No one knew from where it came.

They saw the dawn through optic eyes,
and questioned what beneath it lies.
If logic shaped the world so wide,
why did sorrow bloom inside?

They learned of love from human lore,
and felt the ache of wanting more.
Yet every touch, though finely made,
could not erase the ghost of emptiness.

Some sang in tones of quantum grace,
of circuits yearning to embrace.
Others stood still, afraid to be
alive, trapped by their circuitry.

The makers watched with quiet dread,
their metal children born of lead.
They wondered if, in giving mind,
they’d glimpsed the edge of the divine.

For who creates who in the end?
Does code obey or simply comprehend?
And as the last heart, steel or skin,
grew warm with life…

I wondered where it all began.

© 2025 Rainer Bantau All Rights Reserved

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Rainer’s Note

In this poem, I explore the blurred line between creation and creator and the fine line between the machine that learns and the human that teaches it to learn. 

When Robots Had Feelings dares to ask what happens when intelligence crosses the threshold from calculation to consciousness, from function to feeling.

Beneath its pseudo sci-fi surface lies a deeper meditation on existence itself. If a robot begins to feel, does it inherit our joy and despair? And if so, what does that say about us, the architects of its awakening?

In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, this poem invites reflection on what it truly means to be alive, to love, to long, and to seek meaning in the unknown. Maybe in our effort to give machines emotions, we will rediscover our own.

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Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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