The Net

Can you imagine a world without pain?

A world without losing any capital gain?

A world that is safe, quiet, and clean?

Where no one is crazy, sick, or obscene?

I can!  Its here!  The "Electronic Highway"

Where people zoom past on their busy work day

Their info is here, all recorded and filed

Some don't even know, they have been "stockpiled"

Without limit, it seems, we can recall at will

from long lost data, that "delete" didn't kill,

Old info, old files, old chats with our friends

that live on in a database, long after they end

What use? you may ask...What possible need?

Would there be to retain? Where will it all lead?

This is the question that you don't want to ask

For what purpose serves this "assimilating task"??

For you may as well ask, "Why am I here?"

Why does the sun rise? Who pulled the stars near?

Just like those who seek why we exist

Some of us seek backups, for hard drives at risk

And while some try to contact higher powers,

One that will justify their laboring hours

I can't help but think that we've already set

a direct line to Heaven, known as "The Net"