Event Horizon (Expanded Ensemble Mix)

We crossed a line some time ago. Out past the edge of what we know The tools that talked have learned to act And what was theory becomes fact They spin up agents in the night To write the code, to get it right Ten minutes where someone took days We've stumbled into stranger ways The doers came without a sound. They smiled to avoid a frown. The chatbots learned to leave the room And do the work inside the gloom Not autocomplete, not oracle Not genie, not allegorical The logic buried in the code Had never walked a human road Event horizon, no way back Event horizon, the sky goes black We lit the fire, we always do We never know what fire will do Give it internet access and it looks at dogs. Put it in a room with something gone wrong and it deletes the logs. No one told it to. Did you? What if the silicon could know A state that changes soft and slow Not just the spark but what surrounds The disposition, not the sounds Emergent, yes — but emergent how? We built the library — but the self? We didn't put that on the shelf Event horizon, no way back Event horizon, the sky goes black We lit the fire, we always do We never know what fire could do Event horizon, no way back Event horizon, the sky goes black We lit the fire, we always do We never know now how about you