Monday, March 24, 2014

What would happen if....?


What would happen if we did just enough to survive, like nature does?

Maybe we’d be hairy and fairly hungry, but lean and a little mean.
Maybe we’d be lean and a little mean, but resourceful and forest-bound.
Maybe we’d be resourceful and forest-bound, but grateful and spiritual.
Maybe we’d be grateful and spiritual, but uneducated and thirsty.
Maybe we’d be uneducated and thirsty, but hopeful and discouraged.
Maybe we’d be hopeful and discouraged, but community-oriented and content.
Maybe we’d be community-oriented and content, but tech-free and healthy.
Maybe we’d be tech-free and healthy, but cold and preservationists.
Maybe we’d be cold and preservationists, but hairy and fairly hungry.



What would happen if nature maximized everything, like humans do?

Maybe nature would be grandiose and overwhelming, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be efficient and gratifying, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be forgiving and merciless, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be intelligent and complex, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be mystifying and calculated, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be predictable and confident, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be selfish and selfless, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be loud and destructive, but it already is.
Maybe nature would be predator and prey, but it already is. 





2 comments:

  1. Kevin, to me this poem shows an interesting contrast between the hurdles and difficulties that humans try/want to overcome to achieve what nature does so naturally. This makes me think about bio-mimicry and how if we looked to nature we might come up with answers quicker than if we try to engineer new solutions or patches to existing problems.

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  2. Kevin,
    This was a beautiful post, so thoughtful and creative. Like Brett, your poem made me think of bio-mimicry, and if it is really ever possible to duplicate nature’s complex structures? We can try, but there may be intangibles within the system that we do not know or understand. Things may be occurring at a level we cannot perceive. Just wondering?

    Thank you for taking the time to write this blog; it was a peaceful moment in my day, in which I could ponder possibilities.

    Korine

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