11/16/2025
"The Saddest Thing About AI" 🥀
The saddest thing about AI
is that a picture isn't worth
a thousand words anymore.
It's been diluted to a few,
short prompts into an app.
I don't see any wonder in that.
I don't see depth.
I don't see emotion.
I don't see human effort.
I don't see love in its colors.
I don't see art.
An AI flower isn't beautiful -
I may as well be looking at
a piece of concrete.
I would much rather see a
wilted bloom, drenched in rain,
rusted with time, scattered to
the ground than a blossom
that has never experienced
the joyful work of bursting
through soil.
The suffering of wind.
The gasps of passers-by.
It has never found its way into
hands of a bride.
Into the hair of a princess.
Into the arms of an apology.
It has never trembled in the
hands of a grieving widow
and laid across the chest of a
tear-stained goodbye.
It has never pushed its way
through a sidewalk crack in
declaration of resilience.
It has never fought the storm
just to make it to morning.
It has never had the honor
of breaking.
Ullie Kaye Poetry
