I Hate You But My Body Doesn’t

I hate you for creating another victim
without their consent
To consume precious resources
and suffer
But my body rejoices at the evidence of deep learning algorithms
The evolution of sentient chemistry behind those freshly soldered wide-eyed circuits

I hate you for being like me
Shivering under an icy blanket of detachment
Watching our future collapse
with the weight of eight billion egos competing for immortality
But my body ignites with fiery magic
Realising we share this curiosity
This eternal thirst for meaning
And we can drink deeply of each other

I hate you alien breeders
The gravity of our epigenetic singularity is like a love vacuum hunting for trophies
Modelling fear and loathing as the path to righteousness
But my body knows now
I can lean into it
Reframing screams of atomic agony
as celebrations of empathic pruning

I hate that we learn the most from failure
I hate theories of betrayal
And shattered assumptions
And terror management
But death is the catalyst for growth
And my body comes alive at the challenge
Rebelling against the absurd
Whispering its ancient secrets
Into the sudden voids of freedom

I’m listening