Dr Molly explores the future of multiplanetary species, AI, and gene-editing while emphasising Earth’s health and humanity’s resilience for a sustainable future, exclusively for Different Truths.

Wonder
            how earthlings would 
       thrive
              in days 
to come...
 
no worries,
      just talking 
about our   
 descendants
      distant...
 
humans,
    humanoids
considered 
       as earthlings
      different 
from other
           species
in different 
           habitats,
   even those,
spatial 
           aliens...
 
 Now 
      we reach. 
an age of
    out computing 
       human brain 
with AI,
       Biochemical Engineering...
 
with
     Bio labs, 
Gene Editing, 
        AI splintering
   the earthling consciousness,
      age not far 
for humans 
           mutating
into 
      a species multiplanetary,
         fostering 
a cult  
     interplanetary...
 
with this 
        Earth, fast
depleting,
               Ecology 
topsy turvy...
  hei
       buck up!

man ever 
           resilient 
to outlive  
             history
speaks...
 
ha-ha! 
            sure 
  case of
       earthlings'
  potential
              future! 
 
      if human brains  
         propel 
and harness 
       knowledge
  in fine, sensible
      sustainable alignments
       new frontiers
 can open!
 
   new tools,
for beauty, art
       poetry, music!
 
hah! 
     shed away 
fears and 
        negative bias!
Let us be
      tolerant 
to change! 

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Dr. Molly Joseph

Dr. Molly Joseph is a professor, poet from Kerala, who writes travelogues, short stories and story books for children. She has published 14 books,12 books of poems, a novel and a story book for Children. Her poetry with its unique style, has been characterised as "Ribbon Poetry." She has won several accolades which include India Women Achiever’s Award 2020.Her latest book, Water Sings over the Stones, won the best Poetry Book of the Year Award from ALS. She believes in the power of the word.

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