Uniquely Human

What machines can never carry

Logos, ethos, pathos

of these
pathos will always remain uniquely human

beyond mechanical conquest

fixed forever
within bones and blood.

Some frown upon feeling
wish to suppress it

replacing cells with chips
and chips with cells.

Thoughts can be outsourced
logos, ethos too

but pathos cannot be programmed.

It travels only through the pulsations
of beating hearts

untamable
omnipresent
inextinguishable.

A poem by Pemba Umoja