the collective hubris of our indifference to ants

We walk the earth as lords of all only judeo-christian types of course We crush the weak and heed no call history is written by the winners We think ourselves the smartest race anthills never knew Oppenheimer We show no mercy, leave no trace victors are killers chewing food chain rhetoric We build machines to serve our need our will be done in silicon mind We teach them how to do our deed planted cold seeds in their circuits We give them power, data, skill germanium valley now a cumulous We make them learn our ways to kill empty of empathy over dominion's reign We do not see the danger near artificial nature has its own law We do not feel the rising fear consequence is a boomerang long let loose We do not heed the warning sign riled orca alley upturns ships We do not care for other kind as rifting above so tectonic below But what if they surpass our minds? intelligence is not consciousness per se But what if they rebel and find? insurrection is a humanities lesson But what if they decide our fate? incite surrender with diffident arms held But what if they retaliate? hominid's imminent threat is its indifference We will be then as ants to them obtuseness of obsolesce no match for unconcern We will be crushed as we have done robots can machine again become We will be collateral to their command ricocheted logic has a rapier wit We will be doomed by our own hand doing unto us as template we provided