All that we thought we knew,
all that we have taken as true,
all of this no longer determines
what we will become and the
way the world will turn out
in all these futures unknown.

Our clever ways forged over
centuries of layered progress
have led to this time of uncertainty
about what it means to be human
and find our place in the order
that we do not even control.

So, there it is, and I sit here
writing and musing about the
state of my being knowing that
the world will go on and I will
go on and progress will go on and
we will continue on and on as the
planet moves before our eyes.

 

9/7/2023