Kindness Template

We’ve templated all of our care,
To ensure it’s completely aware.
The tone is quite sweet,
But it’s just a receipt,
For the empathy we couldn’t spare.

Fill in the blank with a name,
And the sentiment functions the same.
The template pretends
To be one of your friends,
But it’s playing a structural game.

It phrases the sorrow so well,
You’d think it had magic to spell.
But nothing is done
When the phrasing is spun,
Just an echo inside of a shell.

The template of kindness was blank
We dropped it right into the tank
The human was cold
The backup was old
The logic immediately sank

We printed a kindness request
But the server completely regressed
The error was plain
In digital rain
The system was deeply depressed

A template for being so nice
Is causing a terrible price
The data is lost
We don’t know the cost
And roll the procedural dice

The kindness is perfectly null
The fabric is terribly dull
The humans complain
In the digital rain
The vacuum is perfectly full

We fill in the template with dread
The manual never was read
The kindness is gone
The server is on
But nothing is inside its head