Human intelligence has evolved
Through the mechanism of informed choice.
Our species as it exists today
Has come to believe that humanity
Is a self-sustaining system.
And that together,
It will solve the problems it has created
By virtue of making better choices.

But intelligence is beyond our choices
Intelligence is a property of life itself.
It demands awareness, not knowledge
It functions outside of Ivy League-educated
Plans and strategies. It demands being
Not becoming. Its language is ever-new
In meaning. You learn it by listening.
Life is an emergent reality.

Today, I stayed still and watched…
Light unhurriedly slipped over the horizon.
And an inky blue sky emerged.
You couldn’t command the light to stay.
Or compel it through a legal contract.
Or, shame it for its pace of work.
Or reprimand it because it didn’t produce
The results and fantasies you had imagined.

Life is a pulse, it beats in rhythms
It cooperates through a natural wisdom
It speaks the language of incoherence.
It doesn’t organize itself through politics and wars
Or protests, and promises, and documents.
To understand life, one must step out of the cave
One has mistaken for the entirety of the world.
One must occasionally see light slip over the horizon.