Dear Alan

A tale of a mind that defied time, yet was broken by it. A tribute to Alan Turing.

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In a room of steel and secrets
A lone mind went astray
Cracking codes of human shadows
In the thick of war's cruel play

With numbers whispering softly
Where the silence held its breath
Built a puzzle of the unseen
In the face of coming death

Kings and queens and pawns
They danced in his tireless thoughts
Breathing life into machinery
Where human touch was lost

A chess game never ending
With spectral moves unseen
Every answer held in shadows
Secret whispers in between

A sight beyond the veil
Betrayed by time and law
The world could never fathom
all the genius that it saw

Penance paid in cold resolve
A mind left to decay
A heart that screamed for justice
Taken on that cruel, black day

They judged you oh so harshly
When the truth was plain to see
A mind that gave us victory
Chained by narrow hate's decree

And in the quiet of the meadow
By the lakeside where you wept
You bit into the apple
Poisoned by the tears you kept

A bite of silent protest
A fruit of knowledge gained
Left us ponder the wonder
And the sorrow that remained