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January 15th, 2026
by Regina Chae
since the Assyrian dynasty bounded by sands (we can only imagine) to contemporary times we scarcely can escape not one person dictates the blood of society's pressure yet the fading sunset or the clear blue sky doesn't increase my dopamine the rush of adrenaline over climbing branches or big boulders doesn't seem to apply there aren't blankets of serotonin when lying on germinated seeds because our veins are now networks and water just steams our artificial intelligence elders tell us to relax our eyes for the venomous scape bathe in the moonshine and the cancerous rays the harsh grip just so we can have experience I stand and stand while the rot seeps out of sewers stand and stand above the crawling itch and stick shuffle for the gamble in a flower planted for lives unseen adore it we can't – not in the minds of thousands it's been a half-century since kids danced with the sun or slid through the green sometime between 5,100 years and 7.8 million years from now humanity will cease maybe in another century kids won't know what they don't know of the animal kingdom as all they will know is LED lights and cooling fluids and tin boxes that talk I know I probably won't be alive to see the world change but I can still fire the neurons in my brain and think think! will the changes be black and white? or will it be subtle? a soft blinking diode bit by bit until in a blink the world is plasma metal screams
About the Poet
Regina Chae resides in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Read the poet's biography and Young Poets World publications
on Regina Chae's Artist Page.
Young Poets Collection
This poem is also featured in
Young Poets Collection #1,
published in the Young Poets World Library.
Keywords: nature, technology, future, evolution, AI
Previously published in Young Poets Magazine:
Me the Monster, the Victim, Me?
by Shaheer Daniyal
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