CIPHER

You wore masks like a tailored disguise;

What a cipher you are, hidden in depths of lies.

You acquire applause like theorems require proof—

Why do you act as a calculated spoof?

Encrypted with data, you blend in chips,

Corrupt like a virus — a breach, Trojan it is.

Cloaked in commands, your logic slips;

You execute functions in hidden scripts.

Abandon the syntax,

Variable applies.

Debug the software,

If proxy denies.

Laden in hardware,

A disk error you are.

Programmed in Java,

A Python, you are.

You call yourself a CPU, sleek and supreme—

But I pulled the plug; now who runs the machine?