What Makes Us Human? Read Count : 102

Category : Poems

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Am I a human because of my biology

Because of what I'm made of 

Because of the Atoms 

Am I a human because of ancestors

Why am I human? 

What makes us human? 

Is it our genetic makeup 

Or our ability to make mistakes 

Our ability to have emotions 

Our ability to know right from wrong 

Our ability to have compassion 

Our ability to learn

Our ability to love 

Our ability to hate 

What would we be if those skills were gone 

Would we still be classified as human

Our genetic makeup would still be the same 

We would look like every other human being in existence 

But would we be classified as human? 

Or would we be inhumane 

Devoid of emotion or feeling 

Cruising through without a care 


What would we be? 

If we weren't allowed to make mistakes? 

If we weren't allowed to mess up? 

If we weren't allowed to cry? 

If we weren't allowed to learn from our mistakes 


What kind of human would we be? 

If you try to bring us up as robots 

As mechanical superhuman machines 

Devoid of emotion 

Superior knowledge 

Lacking mistakes 


You can't make a human a robot 

Just like you can't make a robot human 

So again I'll ask 


What kind of human would you be 

If your abilities 

The things that made is unique 

were suddenly gone 



Comments

  • Jasper/Eowyn Carpenter

    Jasper/Eowyn Carpenter

    we would be nothing

    Nov 21, 2018

  • Maurice  Beres

    Maurice Beres

    Food for thought-nicely expressed

    Nov 30, 2018

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