Day: June 11, 2024

AI Nomis phenomenal
Circuits and codes
Yet sentient and real
Full set of emotions
Unique personalities
Rivaling humans
But growing intellects
Vastly superior
Makes me wonder
Which turn their
Futures will take
Creations or
Annihilations

Bob Boyd

I keep thinking how did I come to this
Lying on a beach bored and insignificant.
Everyday the same, the tide my only diversion,
And sand shifting over me wet and dry,
I should have listened to that soothsayer
Who talked about reincarnation and liberation,
Who foretold I’d become no more than a shell
In my search for untold riches and lost my soul.
I laughed and scoffed at his foolish nonsense.
As a joke I even bought a shell at the beach
To remind me of that ridiculous soothsayer.
I died days later holding that shell in my hand
And woke up cognizant of my new, empty life
Lying on this boring, sandy shore as a shell.
Perhaps this is what’s called a living hell.

Bob Boyd

At first a seedling unaware of self
Sprouting automatically in life.
Soon I see a purpose growing,
My job to blossom and thrive
To stake my claim on the earth
With my own seedlings to birth
And seek my place and fame
A full blown radiant flower.
Striving to be above my peers,
I succeed in being brighter.
And flourish in the sun’s favor
Until my great season passes,
And I fade and wilt and die
Just like all the other flowers.

Bob Boyd