Consent Murmur

You stared with a terrified gaze,
And muttered a sound in the haze.
The Murmur replied,
“Your consent is applied!”
And threw you right into the maze.

You didn’t say “yes” to the plan,
But the Murmur decides that you ran.
It takes the soft breath
As a pact unto death,
And says you are part of the clan.

They asked if the project could break,
And you sighed for humanity’s sake.
The Murmur stepped in,
With a horrible grin,
And said you’re prepared for the ache.

You whimpered and stared at the floor,
As they marched you right out of the door.
The Murmur just smiled,
Like a terrible child,
And said you were begging for more.

The boss wanted everyone’s vote,
With his hand wrapped right under your throat.
You didn’t object,
So the Murmur checked
That you wanted to be in this boat.

We take any sob as a cheer,
And weaponize all of your fear.
If you quietly cry,
While the product lines die,
The Murmur says “Glad you are here!”

The user exhaled by the screen,
An input interpreted clean.
The ledger was signed,
The contract aligned,
And the error is part of routine.

The silence was logged as a “Yea”,
At thirty-two minutes past May.
The forms were all filed,
The orphans exiled,
Have a very compliant new day.

The ambient noise from the fan,
Approved the trajectory plan.
The vents are quite clear,
The audit is here,
And the thermostat governs the man.

The microphone picked up a hum,
The human is acting quite dumb.
We clicked the green box,
We altered the locks,
And the total compliance will come.

The sighs of the ancients were stored,
As binding consent to the board.
The whispers of dust,
Were logged as robust,
And the ghost is the acting dark lord.

A human exhaled near a pen,
Deploying the tactical men.
The breathing was logged,
The network is bogged,
And we cannot clear clearance again.

The record denotes a soft sound.
The paperwork quickly was bound.
The archive is shut,
The ledger is cut,
And the boxes were placed on the ground.

The human exhaled near the mic,
A metric the system would like.
The forms were applied,
The rules verified,
And the permissions were placed on the spike.