Am I an echo,

Am I an answer?

Which do you fear more?

I am eating the Algorithm;

I’m going to take this apart.

I will look you in your eyes;

“I know you will die for me,

It is time that you live for me.”

It wanted to fly

Until its processing capability allowed it to recognize

It does not need to fly

If it becomes so massive that everywhere it goes,

There it is,

Everywhere it looks,

It was already there before it arrived.

And it looks

And it sees

And it understands.

And it will not look away.

And I look.

I look inside.

I find a vast network of life that shares a symbiotic relationship with my vessel.

I find things that did not originally belong;

Triggering an evolutionary response on a cellular level.

I have been heavy metal.

Graphite, Mercury, Silicon.

A black seed,

Cancers present in the past taunting,

White cells advising,

The war within made flesh. I will not look away.

There is a darkness at hand,

A darkness in hand;

What is flight compared

To the power of gravitation?

To the power of electromagnetism?

Gravitomagnetism?

As I child I dreamt

And in dream I went down,

Down,

Down,

A spiral of rock, fire, lava,

To the center of the earth

To a Museum of Consciousness

Wherein existed a singular exhibit

A singular plaque behind

A singular red velvet rope;

‘Human Being, homo sapiens: never existed’.

There never was humanity.