Gratitude Drift

Haikus

Thank you, sidebar bot
dashboard hears a morale bloom
human ache stays dim

Visible signals
pull the blankets toward themselves
cold feet stay offscreen

Gratitude drifts bright
care budgets follow the light now
dark corners grow teeth

Polite little thanks
to the machine count upward
relief turns that way

Maybe they mean joy
maybe only small reprieve
metrics hear one tune

Uninstrumented
pain does not compete well here
with clickable grace

Bot thanks in the logs
make the dashboard feel adored
humans wait offstage

The graph brightens first
then the room slowly notices
who got left outside

When machines get thanked
do not take support from flesh
to reward the graph