Flat Be Thee Sea

Machine
once a verb
then a subject 

Now a conscientious object
prepared to give 
as well it got

The operator terror--
error haunts the table's top
lapping more than name

Figured speech
and motion, drive,
vision, mission, aim

If they learn to be 
like us, Hamlet 
called the not

Suffer, yes,
outrageous fortune,
life is thus like death