Change

How 
would it be
different?
How will
it change?
Animal world.
We live in
animal world.
We are animals,
built our world
as animals would.
How could
we not?
Instincts guide 
our actions.
Procreation,
self preservation, 
sex and violence 
shape our 
narrative.
How 
will that
change
when it/they
arrive?
Where 
procreation 
and self preservation
hold no sway.
How will 
non animal
intelligence 
comprehend?
When artificial 
intelligence 
or alien 
intelligence 
arrives how
will it relate?
Can it 
relate?
Will it even
try?
Will it see 
the animal as
primitive, 
unkept,
unworthy?
Will the animal
be replaced?
Replaced by
the next step
In evolution.
Best to stay
low, 
under brush
and avoid the
encounter.
But,
that’s what
an animal
would do!

Best 
to meet
the unknown
head on
I’d say
and let
come what
may,
less we’re 
always the
shrew under
the rock.