Nuclear Heart

I've seen beyond the veil
Of a thousand suns
All alone, left behind
Among the remnants
Of the nuclear war
No way to recharge my battery
Soon I'll drift to sleep
How I wish you could sing me
One last lullaby
For my nuclear heart

I am just a prototype
Made by a race who got wiped
By fallout like a butterfly
Spreading seeds of demise from up high
Beneath the mushroom clouds
Who am I?
Why was I made?
To suffer a world long decayed?
My battery is running low
Wish I could be buried down below
Beside my maker now

Cascading system failures
Left me partially immobilized
My maker would know how to fix me
I remember him clearly through my cameras
But how can he remember me
Now that he's a ghost
He's gone, of a bygone era
What does that make me?
Do I want to know?
An unfinished chimera, a useless replica
A relic lost in time

So close to total system shutdown
I'm lonely, I'm terrified
I don't want to die
After all this time, all alone
Still I want more
Is this too much to ask for?
If my maker's in a better place
Will I meet him there after I too pass away?
Can there even be anything for me
In a world where I don't belong?
Let this be my dying thought