Electricity is the lifeblood of technology,
The current that runs through its wires
Animating its circuits and schematics,
The spark of energy that powers up its programs
And lights up its liquid crystal screens.
Plugged in or charged up,
The computer surfs the internet,
The smartphone downloads its apps.
Electricity makes the technology heart beat.
Generators and capacitors, transformers and routers
Send pulses of its power through the wires
To your little house on the street,
With all of its interconnected devices.
The humming power grids are its veins.
High voltage current is its blood.
Electrons are its platlets,
Fingering the digits
In digital analysis,
The quantum mechanics
Mechanizing its logic.
But electricity itself is like a spirit,
A strange, wild spirit
Moving from positive to negative
At the speed of light,
Generating heat.
It is the pure, supernatural energy
Of lightning bolts
Dancing over the circuit boards
In little flashes and clicks.
Exploding into arcs.
Filling the static world with sparks.
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Author Notes
I wanted to portray technology and the energy behind it in human terms here, to illustrate how much of our human characteristics we have imagined it having when we think of technology and our devices. They are almost like a part of our own bodies, feeling and thinking for us, for better or worse. There is something sinister about thinking of living things in terms of soulless machines. But in the end, the energy needed to power them still comes from nature after all, from this supernatural force we can't quite understand. estory
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