The World Today Poem by Sookdeo Manansingh

To compete with artificial intelligence is the biggest challenge
for every fear in the poets mind
not only the lamps of inspiration
and the many clusters of dream
one has to reckon with
but through the wavs of fibre optics
and the speed of the internet
is leaving little space for the
mind to move with the messages
travelling in the clouds

Nations are coming together to look
at climate change and the impact
it is having on the many lives
that are lost through wild fires
and icebergs melting under the
heat of the sun which is the cause
for the ocean to take away parts
of the land in many small islands
around the globe

At the same time the wars and use of
nuclear weapons are leaving trails
of mass destruction causing innocent
citizens to leave their homes and to go
elsewhere in search of comfort and peace
The amount of drones use now in warfare
need not an army to carry weapons
that can cause tremendous damage
other than natural disasters

Although the advancement of knowledge
is finding new ways to solve diseases
and to create medicines that are extending
the average age of life most medical
professionals are encouraged to prolong
the existnece of life by exploring
underneath the ocean to reach new
waves of oceanic herbs that can give relief
to numan suffering and pain

More and more aircraft as well as spaceships
with sophisticated technology and equipment
are built to get more out of space information
that can guide mankind one step closer
to the mystery of birth and death
for every form of life
As world leaders are becoming more and more
aware with reality and what the future
is expected to reveal so too many new diseases
are caused by negligence and the search
for bacterias and new cells that
can add to the prolongation
of aging

The world wide web is now
a necessity for knowledge and the new
workfoce of the future as more and more
new jobs are created to meet
the changing patterns of time
which is leading humanity
to remove their bounaries
and for world leaders to unite
to create a brighter future
that veryone can live
in peace and harmony