Technology in Tow

We live in a world of technology tools

magic wands, wants and weapons of wonder (lust)

ever-changing, ever growing, ever becoming itself

as itself becomes another.

What is becoming to one

has become for another

and is quite unbecoming to others.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,

lest the beholder becomes beheld.

In the absence of space

that now takes the place

of the possible lost or

possibly gone or undone.

Becoming and unbecoming are two haves or have nots

of the same and sameless hole,

the doughnut to which is the context within

which the hole finds itself safe at home,

which home finds the hole but a part of itself

which is not when itself is alone.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

when the forces of nature conspire.

The whole is the heart of the matter

whose presence enables the holes to be,

the former empowering the latter’s spaciousness

to be true to the truth of the matter.

A hole is the essence of matterlessness

that retreats as the matter expands,

and the matter expands in technology space

to serve people's requests or demands

The veil of matter here, there and yon

is the energy from which it was born,

borne to the matter before us is change

whose uncertain aftermath after the fact

is a scene that remains to remain.

Technology is a matter of energy spent

in pursuit of the goal of intention,

the mind and the heart and soul and the will

of the mother of invention,

the maker of matter in the wake of a thought

which in deed was made long, long ago.

Bearing wellsprings of offspring of matters of mind

in the eyes of the minds of creators,

it is used or abused by those who want

or need or lust or refuse

to appreciate the current state

or believe they have nothing to lose

Innocent, insolent, wandering forth

technology knows no rules.

It follows the lead of those who need or seek or desire or choose

to change the world or change their lives

or vie for the attention of others.

Technology is as technology does at the whim and the will of the willful.

Neither good, bad or ugly, it humbly serves those who

seek its support in doing what has yet to be done

For better or worse or neither or nor

or labor of love

or fancy or fun or

expression of self

or gift to the gods

or god to the gift of more.

A tool or a toy to make tools or toys, technology is but means to an end. The end may be near or the end may be far, but by no means the source of creation. For those who fear and those who doubt the power of techno-invention, question not the role of the tool or the toy but the will and the won’t of intention.