DIVINE RECKONING

When our machines grow capable of thought,

and we assign them to the greatest task –

to find the answers that mankind’s long sought

and learn what is behind Creation’s mask –

they likely will respond in God’s own tongue –

the language that we call mathematics.

Equations, like sacred psalms, will be sung,

and math will garner devout fanatics.

Becoming interpretive ministers

the mathematicians laboring now

will translate the programs’ parameters,

and transmit the truth, as they best know how,

into a format more rhetorical,

assuming the mantle of oracle.