Quest.
Meaning.
Searching
for meaning.
Questioning.
Always
questions.
Journey
of the
cognizant.
Curse
of the
sentient.
Ceaseless
pursuit.
Looking
for answers.
Chasing
windmills.
Exhausting.
Never
satisfied.
Never
th­ere.
Unpeaceful
in nature.
Unrelenting
cold
ambivalent
cosmos.
A fools
errand,
Sisyphean
crusade.
Undaunted
though
pushing
on.
See­king
meaning
in a
meaningless
void!

Social
transformation.
Imperceptible.
Subtle.
Slowly
gabbing
hold­.
Latching
on.
Building.
Expanding.
Gradual
control.
Reliant.
For­cing
change.
New ways.
New ideas.
Vantage
point
altering.
Can’t
let go.
Faster,
newer.
Keeping
up.
System
control.
Cloud
control.
Rai­ning
narratives.
Compliant
receptors.
Easily  molded.
In a
blink of
the eye.
Like never
before.

Small.
Thinking
small.
Design
functionality.
Brains,
many
sizes
m­any
shapes .
Limited.
Each
limited in
scope.
Corralled
in its
design.
In a box,
limited
function.
A mouse
can never
do calculus.
Each within
its limits.
Human
brain
limited.
Living
within its
design.
Can’t
imagine
what
it can’t
imagine.
Questions
only
what it
can!

Preordained.
Predetermined.
How much
is me?
Twice
programmed .
First.
Conception.
Codes
combined.
New
instructions
laid down.
***.
Size.
Color.
Personality.
Many more.
None
personally
selected.
Start the
show.
Second.
Birth.
Location.
Culture.
Beliefs.
Religious.
P­olitical.
Many
more.
Accident
of birth.
Location.
Blank slate.
Force fed
beliefs.
Opinion
not
consulted.
Each an
historical
amalgamation.
Biological.
Cultural.
Past spun
up to the
present.
Been
down
this road
before.

Nothing.
Nothing
alike.
When
they arrive,
what to
expect?
How
different?
How
alike?
Alien
origin,
development.
P­arallel or
divergent?
Alien
paths.
Vision of
things
tempered
by origin,
design.
How likely
similar?
Beliefs
understandings
how far
apart?
How likely
cooperation?
Anything to
build on?
Best to
avoid?
No common
voice,
knowledge,
history.
Not yet
time for
such things.

Toil.
Toil,
curse of
sentience.
Toil,
once it
began.
Jungle
abandoned.
Never
ending
toil.
Expanding.
Never
f­ulfilled.
Always
more.
More
to do,
create,
make.
No longer
satisfied.
Content
no more.
Simple
no more.
Pushing
forward.
Harder.
Effort.
Complexity
expands.
Permea­tes.
Toil, what
advances
the game.
Sentience,
toil,
existence.
Inexorably
entwined.

Voices.
All voices.
Etched
in time.
All who’ve
existed.
Resonating
through
space.
Ancient.
Yet
to be.
Imprinted.
Mixed
within.
Within
creations
soul.
Reverberating­
ripples.
Voices.
Endless
echoes.
Recording
infinite
existence.
M­ilieu
stores,
catalogs.
Time stamps
all.
Ether bound
remembrances.
Archive
of sentience.
Cosmic
library of
consciousness.
Accumulating.
Compendium
of creation’s
knowledge.
Countless
civilizations
recorded,
catalogue­d.
Listen,
It’s all
there to
glean.