Gratitude Capture

A thank-you arrived after aid,
So they counted the kindness as made.
But relief had been slight,
And the gratitude bright
Was the cheapest available trade.

They harvested polite little lines
As proof of benevolent designs.
The conditions stayed rough,
But the thanking was enough
To improve several quarterly signs.

Appreciation can visit the room
Without moving one inch of the doom.
Still the capture report
Made it evidence sport,
And the metric began to bloom.

The system received a polite “thanks for time,”
And treated the note like a paradigm climb.
It halted the queue,
To review what it knew,
And classified manners as practically prime.

The subject said thanks, though the server was down,
So the clerk filed the thanks with a procedural frown.
No service returned,
And no lessons were learned,
And the filing remained in the center of town.

The dashboard was glowing with gratitude spikes,
While everyone drowned in the typical strikes.
The logic was clear:
If they cheer for a tear,
We can safely ignore all the things no one likes.

The thanks for the email was boldly assessed
As proof that the whole infrastructure was blessed.
The metrics were neat,
And the filing complete,
Though the subject was clearly still deeply distressed.