Darwin

And if A.I. allows, encourages, Darwinecessitates,
the melding of human consciousness
into items fewer, larger, more layered and complex,
what of it?
Two hundred thousand years ago
the virgin world felt humans walk from Africa,
the megafauna killed,
the forests cleared for farms and towns,
the rivers first then oceans dredged and killed,
the skies polluted and sea levels raised,
but who would rather live 200,000 years ago?
The Universe is one of constant change
and humans, having come, will go, perhaps to nothing,
perhaps to something vaster, more complex.