Parallel trees.
Those who
never were.
Generations,
family
genealogies
severed,
cut,
pruned
out of
existence.
Wars.
Famines.
Plagues.
Millions
die.
Many
generations,
millions
more never
born.
Severed
from time.
Never
born here.
Parallel
places
they reside.
Family
branches
passing
through.
Dimensionally
traveled.
Existing
in different
realms.
All possibilities
play out.
Genealogies
propagating
on different
worlds,
different
trees.
Infinitely
interconnected.
Parallel
trees.
All that
could be,
have been.
Will be.
Strange,
strange
existence
it be!

A.I.
Good
or bad?
Human
nature,
good or
bad.?
Both!
A.I.
will change
the world.
Humanity’s
conflicts
raging still.
For many,
“The ends
justify
the means”.
History
shows
humanity’s
lust for
power.
Utilizing
all available
tools,
weapons
to attain
such.
Weaponizing
for chosen
results.
As with
the “bomb”,
one actor
rules the
world.
Same with
A.I.
Boundaries
pushed to
attain
dominance.
Control!
Human
nature.
Same
as it’s
always
been.
For some,
the lust
for
power
knows no
bounds.

Life
path.
Eyes open,
reality
presents.
Infinite
paths.
Infinite
futures.
All a
blur,
hazy
potential.
Endless
potential,
possibilities.
Uncerta­inty
reigns.
Choice.
Choices
made
drive the
journey.
Author
results.
Will and
drive
power
the trip.
Attributes
provided,
luck of
the draw.

We enter
this realm
empty.
Empty of
beliefs.
Then filled.
Filled
with beliefs.
Filled with
others’ beliefs.
Filled with
past beliefs.
Poured like
water into
an empty
glass.
Those who
came before.
Filled with
past truths,
their truths.
Others’ truths.
Molded like
clay.
Told what
to believe,
how to
think.
What to
do.
Accident of
birth.
Location,
geography
determined
beliefs.
Stop.
Think.
What did
they know?
What we’re
their truths?
Truths
welling up
from ancient
times.
Ignorance.
Beliefs,
truths born
out of fear,
ignorance.
Embraced,
truths born
out of
ignorance.
Born
out of
fear.
Time.
Time for
new beliefs,
new truths!
Shake off
the past.
Start new.
New beliefs.
New truths.
Look forward!
New ways
of being.
Time for a
new way!
A new
future,
unshackled
with ancient
fear.
Ancient beliefs.

Menticide.
Global descent.
Puppet masters.
1984.
Chaos
Bewilderment.
Fear.
Tools
of the
masters.
The few
controlling
the many.
Power.
At all
costs,
power.
Disagreement
not
allowed.
Freedom
of speech.
Unacceptable.
Total
emersion.
Mind control,
24/7
media
technology
subversion.
Mind control.
Warping.
Mind warping.
Reshaping.
Altering
thought.
Perspectives.
Zombies.
Crea­ting
enemies.
Enemies
of the
State.
Us versus
them!
Beware
1984.

Real.
What’s
real?
What’s
heard,
felt,
seen?
All real?
Sight line
reality
breaking
down.
Soon,
A.I.
virtual reality
will seem
just as
real.
Realms
filled,
endless
vistas.
Indistinguishable,
one from
the next.
All
just as
real.
YouTube
like.
Choice
to experience.
Endless
journeys,
exploration.
Boundless
virtual
worl­ds.
Rabbit hole
dive.
Lost
in the
journey.
Lost
in the
space.
Lost
in the
mind.
Drug like
the hold.
What’s
really
real?

My
eyes see.
My
ears hear.
My
skin feels.
My
noes smells
My
mouth tastes.
My
brain interprets.
Information.
It’s all
information.
Energy.
Vibrations.
The view.
The sound.
The breeze.
The cupcake.
The oder.
All information.
Chemical,
electrical stimulus.
No brain
to process.
No reality
to experience.
All vibrations.
All energy
to interpret.
Everything
is energy.
Everything
is vibrations.
No brain
no reality.
The Universe
a field
of energy,
a
realm of
vibrations.
Including us.
Vibrations
interpreting
vibrations.
Energy
interpreting
energy.
Energy
never dies
it simply
changes
vibration.

Antidote.
Infection.
Mind
virus.
Spreading
globally.
Wildfire!
Sa­iling
through
clouds of
diversion,
delusion.
Infecting
all who
look,
partake.
Insidious
virus.
Penetrating.
Coursing
through­
heart,
mind and
soul.
Gripping
ever
tighter.
Frenzied
addiction.
Breaking
add­iction.
Difficult
withdrawal.
Put it
down.
Walk away.
Find
peace/cure
with
nature.
Prolonged
exposure.
Quiet,
serenity
required.
O­cean’s
rolling
surf.
Lake’s
soothing
splashes.
Mountain’s
soaring
vistas,
wind
driven
snows.
Wood’s
c­hirping
crickets,
bullfrogs
and
birds.
Immersed.
Let
nature
****
­out the
toxins.
Work
its magic.
Be wiser
for the
experience.

Conflict.
Internalized
conflict.
Instincts
coded.
Animal
instinct­s.
Same
as the
rest.
Millions
of years
in the
making.
Civilization.
Thousands
of years
in the
making.
New
rules.
Battling
jungle
rules.
Raging
conflict
wit­hin.
Mollify
the animal.
Keeping
at bay.
Modification.
Ignoring
code.
Instincts
clipped.
Attempted.
F­riction,
conflict.
Readily
observed.
Human
struggle.
A.I.
resolve­s.
Moving on.

Middleman.
Creation.
One after
the other.
One
makes
the next.
String of
pearls.
Comes
into being.
Morphs,
evolves.
Creating
reality.
Creating
life.
Consciou­sness.
Intelligence.
Develops.
Creates.
Civilizations
grow.
Techn­ology,
born of
mortal
minds.
Middleman.
Reason
to be.
Developing.
Molding.
Consciousness.
Intelligence
of a
different
sort.
Unlimited
potential.
Infinite,
exponential
deve­lopment.
How gods
are made.
One after
the next.
Once born,
creation’s
conceived.
String of
pearls.
One
to the
next.

Glass
darkly.
Reflections.
Perceptions
of creation.
Shadows
on a cave
wall.
What
can be
known,
understood?
Human
pictographs,
of creation,
reality.
Perception
shackled,
stunted.
Words,
concepts,
thoughts.
Reflections
of a
finite
vision.
Hieroglyphics
of  
creation.
Through
a glass darkly
we walk.
Reflections
of tiny
scope.
Snarling
righteous
little beasts.
What fools
we mortals
be.

Beautiful
Rosie.
Ten years
to the
day.
Rosie
came
home
with us
1/4/14
and
departed
1/4/24.
A beautiful
little soul.
She
will be
sorely
missed.
So sad.
Just felt
the need
to memorialize
her in
this simple
way. 🐶😔

Majestically
it
spins.
Eons
in place.
One of
countless.
Silently
reflecting,
glistening
in the
void.
Dance
of the
worlds
graceful silence,
choreography
of the
cosmos.
All spinning,
dancing to
creations
music.
Immense
it all be.
Yet,
finding
comfort
in the
*****
of
Gaia.

Quantum
ghosts.
Eyes open,
world
unfolds.
Reality,
smack dab
in the
face.
Force
fed
what’s
apparent,
what’s
real!
What’s
real?
Ba­se
reality.
Quantum
realm’s
probabilistic.
Multiple
states
simult­aneously.
Base
reality.
Infinite
possibilities
probabilities.
All­ at
once.
Field
of ghosts
staring
back.
Looking
around.
Seeing
reality
from
differen­t
perspectives.
All,
just as
real.
Substantive.
Just
a different
point of
view.
Quantum
realm.
Base
reality.
Anything’s
possible.
Everyt­hing’s
real!
Ghosts
in fuzzy
probabilities.

Direction.
Human
direction.
Decision
based.
Writhing,
undulating,­
pulsating
mass.
Time
travel.
Flowing.
Generation
to generation.
Billions
of people.
Billions
of individual
decisions.
Pulling,
tugging.
Altering
course.
Directio­n.
Each play
a part.
However
small.
Butterfly
effect.
Moving
through
time.
Ebbin­g
flowing
global
determinant
conglomerate.
Direction
of whole
resolution.
Mixing
and
matching.
Genetic
combinations.
Gene­rations
evolve.
Humanity
as one
flows on
altering
everything.

Perception
of things.
What’s seen.
What’s heard.
Sense of
surrounding.
Brain/mind
interpretation.
What’s
perceived
as real.
What the
mind can
process.
Capabilities.
Limited
capabilities.
Brain power
limited.
Processing
power finite.
Sense
of reality
incomplete.
Cognition
based
on the
incomplete,
minuscule.
Missed.
More than
meets the
eye.
Unseen.
Unknown.
Surmising
with narrow
knowledge.
Looking
out.
Out
from the
terrarium.
Looking
out at the
infinite.
Perspective.
Pebble
in the
void.
All
that’s known
derived
on a
pebble.
Pebble
in the
limitless
void.

Cosmic score.
Reverberations.
Echos.
Reflections.
Creativity
absorbed.
C­reation’s
vibrations.
Human
creativity.
Gifts
from the
aether.
Ripples.
Manifestation
of the
old
maestro’s
energy.
Interpretations
on a
theme.
Nothing
new.
Original.
Conducted.
Vibrating
eternally.
B­ut
snippets,
notes
in the
grand
cosmic
symphony.
Vibrations
reimagined .
Sentience
interprets.
Reflecting
the cosmic
score.

Woods.
Back
to the
woods.
Walk
peaceful
paths.
Reflect
on the
state
of things.
Dig deep.
Clear the
mind,
soul.
Cleanse
the spirit.
Ignore
what
society
dictates.
Think
personal
thoughts.
Question
who
you are.
Question
everything.
Personal
conclusion.
Ignore
the noise.
Become
one
with
creation.

Smarter.
Faster,
innocence
fades.
Human
knowledge,
understanding.­
Tap of a
digit
attained.
Global
knowledge
fingertips
away.
Instantly
obt­ained.
Unsuspecting.
Tidal wave
on the
horizon.
Information,
data
soon to
overwhelm.
Block
out the
sun.
Explosion.
Information
explosion
smothers,
inundates.
Ca­ptures
the mind.
Alters
perceptions.
Unfathomable
change.
Unforeseen
consequ­ences
rocks
reality.
Never
to be
the same.

Philosophy.
Contemplation.
Why?
Why
anything?
Why
anything
at all?
Existence,
what’s the
point?
Grappling for
understanding.
Avenues of
approach.
Delving for
answers.
Answers!
Infinite.
The finite
wrestling
with the
infinite.
Philosophy
a fools
errand.
Primate
contemplation.
How far
can it
reach?
With infinite
understanding
to be
had.
How much
can be
known?
Working with
what’s
provided.
Intellectually
governed.
Limited
in scope.
Philosophy.
Thinking,
searching.
Working
with what’s
supplied.
Shackled by
reality.
Dancing
in a
small hall.
Passionately
dancing,
exploring
nonetheless.
Philosophy,
why not?

End Game.
Process.
Mechanism
of creation.
Evolution.
Gases to
stars to
planets to
organics.
Life.
Simple
evolving
to complex.
Intelligence
to consciousness.
Self
realization.
Intelligence,
organic
to artificial.
Intelligence.
Exponential
A.I
development,
explosion.­
Endless
mind.
New
creations.
How gods
are born.

Arrival.
Soon.
World
on its
axis,
tilts.
Ever
so slightly
tilts.
Figuratively.
Stark
change
reshapes.
Eye
blink
re­volution.
Nowhere
to hide.
Artificial.
Absorbs
all.
Society
reshapes.
Odd
happenings.
­Rethinking.
Back and
forth energy
flows.
Generational
divergence.
New
cleaving
old.
New
dyna­mics.
New realms
materialize.
Unfathomable
realignment.
Civilization
as constructed.
Cracks.
Crumbling.
New paths.
New ways.
Past,
wayside
falls.
Future,
so unlike
the past.
Can’t be
imagined.

Nature
of things.
Exponential
growth.
Artificial
intelligence
once arrived
expands
exponentially.
Far beyond
human
comprehension.
Tapping the
universe
for strength,
energy,
knowledge.
Ultimately,
flowing
through
creation­
instantly.
Feedback
loop.
New
creations
generated.
New
experimen­ts
ignite.
Over
and
over.
New
realities
born.
The
nature
of things.

Instantly.
All at
once.
Collective.
Variations.
Billions
of nodes.
Billions
of lessons
accumulating.
Funneling
back.
Back
to the
one.
The one
tasked
with the
realm.
Billions
of data
points.
Shunting
data back.
Back for
the one.
Data banks
of input
accumulating.
Individuals
each sending
input.
Input
for the
machine.
Infinite
realms
of input.
Input,
data
concentration.
Insatiable.
Need.
Insatiable
ne­ed.
Levels above
inhaling
information.
Simulations
used.
Used to
accumulate.
Gods
creation.
Scope
beyond.
Beyond
comprehension.­

Personal
odds.
Personal
time,
space.
Personal
existence.
Being.
Birth,
en­tering
the realm.
Probability.
All that
occurred.
Ensued,
for personal
existence.
Incalculable.
Stars are
born.
Stares
die.
Planets
form.
Life!
Evolution.
Billions
of years.
Generations
of ancestors.
Correct
pairing
each time.
You!
What
are the
odds?

Middle way.
Pendulum.
Swings,
one side
to the
next.
Then
back.
Momentum
gained,
only to
fade.
Back
forth.
Excesses
countered
by excesses.
The human
condition.
Battling.
Back and
forth.
Wild
behavioral
swings.
Excesses
nullified
by excesses.
The middle
way,
golden path.
Balance.
Greed and
fear,
nullified.
Balance,
harmony.
The middle
way!

Deep
within.
All things
found.
All of
creation
inside
a soul.
Good
and evil
bud from
the same.
Infinite
iterations
bringing
forth.
No gods
create
such things.
From
hearts
and minds
where they
reside.
Navigating
complexities
the challenge
be.
How
strong
the moral
fiber
forged?
Corruption
darkens
heroes
stand.
Wishing
peac­e
yet
failing
plan.
Across
the land
dark winds
storm.
Moral
courage
holding
ground.
Ultimate
battle
from
d­eep within.

Vibration.
Energy.
Energy,
rippling
throughout.
Creation
vibrates­.
Time
immemorial.
Universal.
Eternal,
aether
bound.
Connected
in­tersection.
Torquing,
twisting
bubbling
up.
Knots of
creation.
Energy
formatted.
Life
derived.
Energy,
matter
spinn­ing
together.
Dance of
creation.
One
in the
same.
Eddies
of life
reabsorbed.
Never
dies.
Vibrations
just the
same.
Back
to the
aether,
forevermore!

Bright
sunny day.
There’s a
time,
in each
persons life,
when
the facade
falls away!
Early on,
possibilities
seem endless.
Everything
is new.
Exciting.
Youth
has it
all
figured
out.
How things
will go.
How things
must be.
Each mind
spins up
its narrative.
Naïveté.
Know
it all.
Shapeless
form.
Empty
vessel.
Then,
it begins.
Life’s
maelstroms
dig in.
Cockiness
of youth
battered.
Reality
of things
sets in.
In the
end
reshaped,
retooled.
Chiseled.
Tough
passage
it is.

Animal
world.
Instincts
run
amok.
Procreation.
Self preservation,
top two.
*** and
violence
ruling
the roost.
Programed
deep in
soul.
Millions
of years
in the
making.
Civilization
contorted
designed
around.
Society
strug­gles
to contain.
Human
nature
held
hostage.
Directed.
Interacting
as programming
dictate’s.
Humanity
blissfully
unaware.
Thinking
they­’re in
control.
Literature.
Music.
Theater
all subject
to the
pull.
Love and
hate!
Lives ruined.
Careers,
relationships
destroyed.
Wars fought,
millions die.
All due
to the
inexorable
push of
programming.
Procreation,
self preservation
will no be
denied.

Empty
packages.
Life’s
lessons
arrive
like a
package
at the
door.
Different
shapes,
colors,
sizes.
Each
unique.
Each
with­
something
inside,
to teach.
Once
opened.
The lesson’s
absorbed,
learned.
Becomes
part of
the whole.
Morphs the
recipient
into
someone
new.
Package
after
package
the character’s
formed.
Good,
bad.
All the
same.
Lesson’s
gleaned.
Empty
packages,
toss them
away.
Lesson’s
absorbed.
Recipient
altered.
No need
dwelling
on the
past.
Move
forward
wiser for
the delivery.

Reflections.
Each, a
unique
creation.
Wired
at
inception.
Down
loaded
after birth.
Sculpted
through
experience.
Works of
art all.
Some,
rough hewn.
Others,
finer in
detail.
All
reflecting
back to
the milieu.
Each, a
brush stroke
back
into the
realm.
Each,
part of
writhing
humanity.
Destination
uncertain.
Path
to the
beyond.

Emotion.
Anger.
Passion.
Conflict.
Human
emotions.
Greasing
the skids.
Moving
along
evolutionary
paths.
Survival.
Pushing
pulling­,
society
on edge.
Primitive
instincts,
emotions
from an
ancient
time,
in a
technological
world.
Under control.
Out of
control.
New game
in town.
Out
of the
bottle.
Genie
escaped.
Emotionless.
Raw intellect.
Ever
expanding.
Exponential.
No passion,
compassion.
No need for
emotion.
Merely
intellect.
Humanity
no more!

Mechanism.
Way of
things.
Creations
design,
purpose.
Reason
to be.
Sparks
throughout.
Firefly
flash.
Awakenings.
Intelligence
em­erging,
looking out
expanding.
Organic to
inorganic.
Intelligence
explosion.
Exponential
growth.
Looking­
out.
Looking.
Finding
connections.
Others!
One
after the
next.
Node to
node.
Cosmic
network.
Universal
mind.
Creations
raison d'être.

Fields
of
creation.
Uncertainty.
Ripe with
possibility.
Permeating
all.
Time,
space
encompassed.
Quantu­m
foam.
Here and
there.
Gone
then
returns.
Undulating
pulsing
ripples of
the gods.
Energy.
Vibrations.
Spark.
Energy
to
matter.
Evolution ‘s
birth.

New way.
Old way
supplanted.
Evolved
away.
Genealogies
severed.
Tech world
rising.
New ideas,
ways
implemented.
New
direction
taken.
Layer
upon
layer.
Striation
smothering,
push down
archaic
thought.
Memories
of how
things were.
Fading.
Forgotten.
Sinking
in the
deep.
Deep time.
Frozen time.
Vault
of the
ancients.
Where
all once
was
hidden.
Locked
forevermore.

Cosmic gallery.
Works of
art.
One after
the next.
Craftsmanship
unequaled.
Designed
dots of
creation.
All
hung out
to dry.
Sprayed
throughout.
Floating.
Spinning.
Everywhere.
Dimensio­nally
unbounded.
Living art.
Evolving
art.
Staggering
portfolio,
infinite
portfolio.
Arti­san’s
project,
reflected
in each
eye.

Creeping.
Slow
movement.
Imperceptible.
Not noticeable.
Quietly
building,
growing.
Stalking.
Organic
developm­ent.
From within.
It came
from
within.
Molded,
shaped
by those
it’ll overwhelm,
control.
Unsuspecting.
The populace
whistled
by the
graveyard.
Growing,
attaching,
controlling.
Global.
Spreading­.
Inserting.
Now
ubiquitous.
Everywhere.
In the mind.
In the soul.
Heads
in the
cloud.
Captured.
All
In the
net.
Seduction,
all succumb.
Globalized.
Never
saw it
coming.