The blank screen flutters, and
a blind light pours
out of its grand opening.
With a gentle hand it
feeds us the unbrandished
melancholy of tomorrow
and it lies in patient
wait to see what will
transpire.

From the darkness
there comes a motion
a push and then
an unsuspected cry - "it's
alive!" the blank screen thinks
and then dies as its
life's work is complete.