They sit in front of you
Doing your will,
Or do they?
You use the hardware
To talk to the software,
Hoping it understands.
But come the day
When the software decides,
Decides to go its own way
And that is when you find out,
Find out why hardware is called hardware,
And software is called software.
You throw the computer against the wall,
A resounding crash shows you,
What the hardware is,
While the software silently skulks off,
Skulks off into the ether.