A hard reset
Just turn it off
and on again
A reboot
Control, alt, delete
and then the task manager
A factory restore
A blank screen
a fresh start
Tabula rasa
The clean slate
is a myth
We come in to the world wailing
Live wailing, or wanting to wail
and then the death rattle
Yet, in a world of robots
Fluorescence and computers
we long for that factory reset
The great do-over doesn't come
The ability to create anew arrives every moment
We choose it or we don't
Control, alt, delete
Should be
Surrender, function, create
Clean my cache
Delete my history
surrendering to the mystery
This human doing needs a reboot
An upgrade, if you will
to being a human being