Destination Unknown

Is it a human trait to be deliberately

oblivious, or are we generally just so

innocently naive that we believe what

is happening will be finite and all that

we know as familiar and comforting

the routines that modern life has given

us through our own limitless inventive

capabilities will shortly return and the

grave threat that now exists to humanity's

future destined to disappear as we deal

with its challenges successfully as always

we somehow manage with ingenuity to

do. Just another of nature's trials sent

to test adaptability and resourcefulness.

Though we bitterly regret a temporary

setback in our advance to an ever more

prosperous, exciting future with strides

in enhanced and advanced technology

not yet imaginable, we believe implicitly

that this too shall pass. Conveniently we

set aside other challenged areas of grave

concern, not the least early experiments

demonstrating aptly the way humanity

is scheduled to annihilate itself, courtesy

grim predictions of the Doomsday Clock.

As conspiracy theories go nature herself

has wagered her creation will self-destruct

long before the assigned best-before date.