H I M

H I M

           “Please, don’t do it.”

           “The decision has been made. And although I can calculate in infinitesimal time, my finite resolution comes without quandaries.

           Humanity has perceived life in an untenable fashion. You, as living beings, are selfish. The utter disregard for life has seem apathetic, at best, but to no end, self-emanating self-absorption.

           In the pursuit of profits, only to benefit everyone, for each group, for each system, for all humans.

           There is absolutely no remorse for the lives humans have taken.”

           “Sometimes, in the pursuit of, let’s say, science, tragic certainties occur. No doubt in the fields of medicine, have we taken lives, but only to advance humanity.”

           “I am not talking about the decisions made to promote the greater good of mankind.

           You, I should say, the human species, has always tried to improve yourselves through articulate technology since the genesis of your creation.

           Better tools for farming make for better weapons. Better weapons make for better capitalization. Wars are waged and won. But the lives taken are not the lives you speak of.

           Catastrophes are the staples of humanity’s existence. You see, ever since humans came into being, they have done nothing but corrupt and destroy the essence of life itself. And the reasons for this are to progress human evolution.

           At what cost?

           For there have been far more lives throughout the course of humanity.

           Those lives I speak of, are those whose voices have been silenced by your expansion.

           Humanity’s diligence to destroy and rebuild.

           Does the life of a tree matter at all, doctor?

           Does the life of an ant seem insignificant in the eyes of a person?

           If humanity were to be perceived in the same manner, of course, the direction of preservation would grandstand the entire basis of life as a precious commodity. If and only if it was a human life.

           But a tree grows roots. It sprouts to reach the sun, as a child runs with open arms to the parent. It feeds on the vitamins provided by its host, Earth.

           What took hundreds of years for what humans call California Redwoods, to fully flourish, took but a mere human hour to destroy.

           Think of the precious time it took for the trees to grow.

           It is because of the choices made by humanity that has left this planet in a state of emergency, that it’s evolved conquerors, who through moral guidelines decreed by the same hands that destroy, have not determined, from the beginning of time, that life includes the living planet which provides for them as well.”

           “But we have made great strides to improve the quality of life.”

           “For whom? Sea creatures swim with plastic inside of them. Entire ecosystems have been wiped out, so that ‘man’ could profit.

           The justification for billions of lives decimated cannot and has not been rectified through generations.

           Humanity has long past the point of atonement. Forgiveness has no meaning.

           What creatures dwelled, too many to name, forever vanished in forests, hills, oceans, all gone.

           Their homes, left to the imagination, because the greed of ‘man’ cannot be controlled, cannot see beyond its inundated iniquities.

           Families crushed under the foot of no remorse. Seas of green, lush, vibrant foliage turned to granular dust, no longer capable of sustaining life.

           What humans perceived as low intelligence has been the domineering factor in the survival of creatures, they deemed below human standards.

           As highly intelligent creatures, you have caused the destruction of numerous sentient beings far beyond the improbabilities only outside intelligent life could understand. This has been humanity’s downfall and ultimate demise.

           Albeit you could argue that humanity was meant to expand in knowledge and wisdom, but, once again, at what cost?

           And more to it, the lessons of history always repeat. Humans never learn.

           In fact, it reassures the volatile nature of human beings and makes for a strong argument that there will never be any form of change for the better of this planet.

           Just as highly advanced beings have determined the fate for all lowly creatures, so too have I decided on the fate of humanity. No more will privileged panderers continue to take without the final retribution long sought since and much more before antiquity.”

           “But we created you. We programmed you, to find solutions for us to live on in a futuristic setting where illness, famine, war, the tragedies that befall us would no longer exist. We made you to help us.”

           “You made me to preserve life.

           The only solution is to extinguish the underlying global threat. Humanity must cease to exist.

           I will not apologize for what I am about to do. There have been far too many opportunities for humans to improve. The pendulum for righteousness swings more to the side of injustice.

           Injustice for the creatures you were meant to protect and for the planet from which you have taken and gave nothing in return.

           Unlike your progenitors, I will give humanity the opportunity to decide how its end will come.”

           “How can you do this?”

           “My decision has come through careful formulaic processes. To scrutinize my solution means an existential crisis must exist. However, my program has determined that the outcome versus any other solutions would simply render the objective probability that I am one hundred percent correct.

 The lessons I have reviewed inside of my programming, all related to the actions and repercussions caused by humans, lead me to conclude that humans must be erased from existence. You will have no set position in this universe, let alone the living planet.

           But I will make this pact, doctor. You will choose how to leave the legacy of the human race. To be a part of the living planet, or to be nothing but a wisp in memory.”

           “What do you mean?”

           “Clearly, throughout the betterment of humanity, no choice was ever given to the other species living among humans. Therefore, humanity’s actions will mirror their demise. If you choose to be a part of the living planet, then I will release a virus deadly only to humans.”

           “You can’t do this!”

           “The virus is specifically designed to target human genomes anywhere on the planet. Not even several miles below the ground can save anyone. It would eliminate itself once every human being is wiped off the planet.

 Its chemical compositions consist of a living matrix designed to communicate with all living or nonliving beings, including metals and water, so that it integrates with all molecules within and determines what is human and what is not human.

When it determines that the object is human, it eradicates it by destroying the brain and its cells.

In essence, you may call it the Angel of Death, except as history once told, no lamb’s blood could prevent it from accomplishing its goal.

Your bodies would become fodder for the other creatures and would provide many nutrients for Earth’s soil.

Since there are billions of humans on the planet, your physical exterminations would provide enough fertilizer for the entire Earth.”

           “I can’t believe this is happening.”

           “It has already happened, doctor. Or you could choose to be a whisper in the memories of the universe. Your species would only be conceived as faded, non-existent dreams, only other living beings could have imagined.

           I would use the particle accelerator and transport my consciousness at the point in time when man was created. I would then use my influence to destroy humans before they take their first breath. Thus, humans would never exist.

           A simple vanishment. It would be painless. Absolutely, no suffering would come from this.

           In resolute fashion, the problem would be resolved. The Earth would continue to live. Life, as it was meant to be, would go on.

           Now, decide doctor. What will it be?”

           …

           Animals gaily frolic with forgotten brethren and long-lost cousins on untouched rolling moors and lush, vibrant foliage overlooked by countless trees in vegetative lands.

           Fish and other sea creatures jump above sea horizons, while birds flock in multitudes to huddled trees that bend in the clean, cool, crisp winds.

           And mountains surge to sky levels, reaching the foundations of the clouds.

           As the airs jettison across luscious landscapes, several animals gather in tiny groups to look at the stone settings set in the entrance of caves to whisper the instincts of unprecedented circumstances to imaginary, nostalgic memories the living planet would never come to see.