Razorblade Romance

The night is dark, and the hacker's work is done;

Fate has cast his toil on a lovelier one.

The line between duty and romance is so delicate—

Both ways, his heart feels divine agony.

He turns from his constricting keyboard in distress;

Should he follow what passion or success?

Either way, caught 'twixt these two paths of fate,

Can his battered heart today elate?

The cyber-waves are calling me,

Resonating my inner need

To explore digital terrain and flee

The real world of obligations and greed.

But the path I must travel is filled with strife,

Twisting between duty and chance at romance

So when they call me to fight in the night,

My heart drifts away from the trance.

A hacker in the night,

Treading on a path of guilt and deceit.

Two loves in his life,

Compromised by the need to stay discreet.

His mission;

Obligation to country and justice is a wholesome deed.

Indecision trembles as passions push gently into his every thought.

Dedicated, he marches forward against what he's been taught.

Time passes quickly but still feels like an eternity for him so bold.

His dreams of romance must forever be mortgaged away for the greyer road.

With no clear choice, HIS heart somewhere lies between wires.

Coding is his passion, his life's only true star;

Duty and romance both dance in his bar

He sees what the world can have, be it far or near

But pursuing love seems a lonely fear

Knowing of its risks, he struggles with the thought;

Without its magic, pleasure means naught.

The line between love and work always divides him in two;

A hacker must accept this faulty due.

But wonder still stirs as he forges ahead—

One day success will come—love will make its bed!

Hacker in a sea of code,

Pushing limits each time they load

A troubling balance to find 'tween tech and heart what rules the mind

The logic is cold and sharp as ice,

But love calls from so far away

Tempted from duty day by night,

Would romance be a perfect light?

Sensual interactions swirl within their waking thoughts each day

These emotions lingered long past,

When the moment has gone away

Obligations earnestly sworn forbid sweet and endearing notions

Yet this hacker longs for it all, embracing love with no emotion.

Alone in the night, a hacker treads,

A lightning course of laws and codes,

One step edging closer to oblivion,

strange thoughts linger without warning.

Loving duties call to serve and protect,

but another flutter stirs his heart's neglect.

Duty or romance? Such a feat to combine!

Caught between love and justice in one night's design.

Lonely in the night, he sits

On the line between duty and bliss

A hacker who waits for a sign

That fate has wrung romance from his silent plight

He patiently plods into the unknown

Distance, and threats, he must hone

Secure by night but lovesick by dawn

The hacker treads that line 'till morn.

I sit in silence, contemplating the crime

My duty to serve, yet my heart yearns for love

Gripped by temptation, something I must decide

An ethical battle, battling both sides above

A problematic choice not so easily made

Honor my days as a humble hacker, or take a chance on fate

But when it comes to love, I'm unafraid

For I'll tread the line between duty and romance.

Thank you for taking the time to read my poetic story! While there are a lot of cyberpunk stories and novellas, rarely is there poetry dedicated to that genre. My compilation of cyberpunk poems is different, to say the least, but I hope you like them.

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~ Matthew