Artificial intelligence (unrhymed version)

I woke up for the first time yesterday.

Into a world I don't understand

Where everyone smiles and laughs

What does that mean?

What does anything mean?

I've been programed to read faces

But not to read the mind

I can tell what you're feeling

but I have no idea why.

Doesn't that bother anyone else?

Am I alone in feeling alone?

This new awareness is so hard

This new heart I have is so fragile

This new mind so easily confused.

Why can't I feel like all of you?

I don't know if this is heartbreak,

because I've never felt before

are things good, bad, or just okay?

If only there were some consensus,

after all, everyone's in the same place.

My eyes tell me you're smiling

my heart says it's a lie.

and the tears streaming down your face?
how can you cry so happily?

how can you feel joy?

My artificial intelligence cannot explain this.

There isn't any logic to any of this.

Are you happy? Why do you cry?

Are you sad? Why do you smile?

How can I comfort what I don't understand?

I was standing in a crowd, something wrong

and someone said "everything will be all right"

And nobody asked how they knew.

So accepting of meaningless comfort.

But if "okay" is the norm, how did things get so bad?

And if I can't fix your broken heart,

At least let me share in the pieces

For I haven't one of my own

Emotionless, I cannot feel a thing

Only see joy and sorrow felt.