(not just to emotion, but on into commitment through action), or else back down.
After hearing “1984”, the novel by George Orwell, read out to me
If life as pure mechanical A.I.
will not be waked by images of love -
to let it grow in soil, then espy
a higher kind that comes down from above,
and let it then take root, and bear a crop
upon this Earth, where choices manifest
as actions and as speech acts, which don’t stop
but rather clothe what’s seen as true and best.
Put flesh on bones of thought, which if they’re true
& strong & hold in “world as it exists”,
can then be lever’d on and move things too,
and pick up things to serve, not just make fists.
Unless you’ve tasted love yourself, I s’pose
that no-one here would blame you for your claim
that there’s no evidence that claims which rose
from trying to express in words, to name
it as “a thing”, not just the word we hear.
That kind of “doublespeak”, and “crime-stop thought”,
which blinds the minds of those who sense what’s near
and might lead to conclusions that are fraught
with problems or with riddles that unease,
and might demand I update my worldview,
and let creative love still gently tease
me, into then responding with love too.
And then into the higher loves where I
don’t be the source, but rather conduit. Please
help me, a garden plot, with life inside,
where judgements are discussed, not quickly seized.