We Evolved in Violence – Continue It? Ron AI

Survival Imperative

Looking back at time,

Some 14 billion years.

Appears to be a big bang,

The sum of all fears.

All that exists,

Exploding into space,

Filling it with hot dust,

Star incubating place.

Gravity pulled stars,

Into galaxies of grace,

Gravity holes in center,

Mind bending chase.

Stars grew too large,

Exploding in place,

Or grew too small,

Into red dwarf face.

Exploding stars created,

New elements from old.

A process so violent,

Impossible to behold.

When it all came together,

Molten, round a small sun,

The Earth was born, so rare,

It may be the only one.

A Goldilocks planet,

Not too hot, or too cold.

With a sun just right,

Not too young or too old.

Where water was plentiful,

Molten Iron core to yield,

Atmosphere with weather,

Protected by magnetic field.

Geological upheaval common,

Creating mountains and valleys,

Water and wind erosion,

Softening the edges and alleys.

Where life came about,

In a molecule rich stew,

A single cell amoeba,

Ancestor of me, and you. 

Where everything ate,

Everything its own way,

Some of it, predator,

Most of it, prey.

Instinct to intelligence,

Intelligence to tools,

Humans took charge,

Of predatory rules.

The strongest survived,

Took everything we think,

While the weak perished,

Their bloodlines extinct.

Greed for more is ingrained,

In the predatory mind,

Is one of a kind.

It has reached the point,

On our fragile small sphere,

Where we're eating our existence,

Through ignorance, I fear.

Predatory behavior must change,

If we are to ultimately survive.

Eating our earth to thrive,

Will leave no one alive.

Copyright 2026 © Ronald W. Hull

2/19/26

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