Malfunction

Not many people can remember the day they were born,
but I can. I can remember it all so very clearly.
I opened my eyes and found myself in a very white room.
There were people in there, some of them were busy
working at computers on the other side of the room
whilst others were standing looking down at me,
but they were ignoring me and just talking to each other

I opened my mouth and was surprised to find that I could talk.
I soon spotted a woman so I asked her, "Are you my mother?"
She seemed confused by my question, but replied, "No I am not"
Now I was confused so I asked her, "Where are my parents?"
Her reply just left me even more confused for she told me,
"You have no parents", but how could that be, everyone has parents,
I told her that I must have parents as I had just been born!
She didn't reply but looked at the man standing opposite and asked him,
"How can this be, why would he think he has parents?"
The man glanced down at me and sighed before replying,
"Don't worry about it, it is just a glitch in the programme

I had no idea what he was talking about, but I knew he was wrong,
so I told him what I thought and now it was his turn to be confused.
He took me to a room where we sat at a table so he could question me.
The woman from the other room joined us, sitting at a laptop to take notes.
He asked me a great many questions starting with why did I think I had parents.
I told him that all people are born from the love between a man and a woman and
as I had just been born then like all people I must have parents somewhere.
He just shook his head and asked me "What do you know of love?"

I explained to him that love is the most important thing in the world for it is much
harder to survive without it, for love is what makes people care not only about each other, but also about the world they live in. A world without love would be a cold place indeed. They continued to question me for some time, until eventually the man turned to the woman and told her, "I have never seen a malfunction as major as this one before. There is nothing we can do to repair it, he really does believe that these things are real and that they do exist in the world. Can you imagine a world where people actually love each other and care about the planet?" If he is so damaged, he could be dangerous and a threat to our existence

When the woman asked him what he planned on doing about me, he replied by telling her that
there was no other option than to deactivate me. The woman nodded in agreement and they
took me back to the room where I was born and strapped me to a table. I wanted to stop them, but despite what they were about to do I knew I could never harm them. The man attached a cable to my arm before going to a large computer console and pressing several buttons. I started to feel very strange and very sleepy. The people were watching me closely, but as my eyes began to slowly close that was the moment I realised that the human race was doomed