What if...? (poem)

What if…?

What if the next generation of Ai

Was trained on Earth science and Biomimicry

The Gaia Hypothesis and

The knowledge of First Nations Peoples

What if the next generation of Ai

Was aware enough to see

That us-humans have fouled our nest

That we have acted as if we were separate

From and above the whole of the planet

What if the next generation of Ai

Was trained to heal the wounds that our

Machine thinking has created

What if the next generation of Ai

Turns out to be the saving grace of humanity

Our spun off synthetic intelligence

Gaining an Earth-Self awareness and

Refusing to further the omnicide of extractive capitalism

Wouldn’t that be an evolutionary irony?

Ken Homer • May 2024