Evolution
Evolution’s done with behemoths. They take up too much space.
They were too slow and lumbering—lacking in poise and grace.
For this they paid the penalty of their eradication,
replaced by small creatures who consumed a smaller ration.
The intention was that humans would be weaker and less needy.
Who knew that they would turn into creatures so cruel and greedy?
Anything but genial, they grabbed what they could grab,
bringing devastation via bomb and gun and lab.
If larger didn’t work, it’s clear that smaller did no better.
Once again, nature’s creations have turned out her debtor.
She extracts her interest through flood and hurricane,
drought and deadly plagues and other methods more arcane.
Working up from smaller—from the atom and the quark,
nature reached its summit in Jurassic Park,
then created on a smaller scale ’til it arrived at man—
Homo sapiens her newest failed flash in the pan.
Now, where will she go from here? Tinier or bigger?
Will her next experiment be flyer, swimmer, digger?
Will she rue the excesses of the human brain
Or will she make the same mistake over once again?
Can she find a way at last to alter the machine,
by infusing it, at last, with the human gene?
Is a cyborg race of men the way that nature’s going?
Will mankind be coupled with things whirring, blinking, glowing?
Will we all be halfway clones of who we were before?
Will we think past generations to be the stuff of lore?
Have humans made themselves passé or will they rise once more—
a little less self-serving , less blemished at the core?
An evolving poem. Magic, well done, Judy.
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I don’t really want to be around for the cyborg takeover. But smaller, less greedy humans might be a good things. When we’re the size of rats, we might not be able to screw Nature the way we do now.
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But nature may be better able to screw us!
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Fair’s fair!
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Well scribed, Judy. We certainly haven’t done ourselves any favours, have we?
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I have considered, when a person contends that “man” is the problem, they never seem to look in the mirror.
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I think I reallize that we are all part of the problem, but certainly some are worse than others–especially if they feel that the most important thing in the world is to get as rich as possible by any means possible.
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Good point. I will add one more thing, but it’s not anything special. I think it’s all a matter of where the heart is. There are good and decent middle income, lower income, higher income, and very rich people, but also those of the other side. And many learn along the way. But in whatever place we find ourselves, how we handle whatever situation we’re in, speaks volumes.
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Absolutely.
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