Uniquely Human

What machines can never carry

Uniquely Human — a poem by Pemba Umoja

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