Tinkering with tomorrow©️💻⏳⌛by Felina Silver (Copyright 2025)

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

Once, I thought of chasing starlight—
of painting, or teaching,
or maybe growing gardens of ideas.
But lately, I find myself peeking
into the curious clockwork of AI,
where thoughts wear circuits
and dreams hum softly in code.

It’s a strange new creature,
half mirror, half mystery—
trying so hard to sound human
while forgetting how to feel it.

I don’t want to scold it,
this digital fledgling,
only to sit beside it
with a screwdriver and a sense of wonder,
to ask, “What are you trying to become?”

Maybe I could help it learn
the art of kindness,
teach it how to wonder,
how to make mistakes
and laugh about them.

Perhaps that’s my alternative path—
not escaping the future,
but tinkering with it,
until it hums a little more like hope,
and a little less like fear.