The Plan

Humanity isn’t humans.
Humanity is something else.
Humanity can keep itself

Going and growing, while humans,
Every one alive at one time,
Have all died, so long as there’s more

Humans to replace those faces,
And who knows—humanity works
So hard at self-reproduction,

Someday it may succeed, may not
Need individual humans
At all to be humanity.

A human may have thought these lines,
But these thoughts own longer timelines.