There is a quiet truth many of us have been carrying:
the language we once trusted no longer holds.

Words that used to anchor us now dissolve on contact.
Phrases that once pointed to something real now hover without weight.
The distance between what we feel and what we can name has become wide enough to lose ourselves in.

This is not about failure.
It is about pace.

We are living in a world that accelerates faster than our emotional systems can interpret.
And AI — remarkable in its reach — expands speed, output, and demand while leaving our inner lives unchanged. It pushes the world forward while the human body stays the same. It stretches language past its limits.

Under these conditions, words collapse first.

We hear them everywhere:

• “leadership”

• “trust”

• “alignment”

• “clarity”

• “transformation”

• “well-being”

• “healing”

• “capacity building”

• “culture change”

• “impact”

• “equity”

• “accountability”

• “resilience”

• “systems change”

• “narrative shift”

• “community”

• “belonging”

• “strategic vision”

Once, these words carried texture.
Now, many are hollow from overuse, repetition, and speed. They flatten the very experiences they were meant to illuminate.

And beneath all of it is another truth many feel but don’t say:
Leadership is struggling to hold its moral responsibility.

Not because leaders don’t care.
But because no one taught them how to stay coherent at this pace.
No one taught them how to make meaning when the ground keeps moving.
No one taught them how to hold identity, conflict, and pressure in a world where everything accelerates except human capacity.

When leaders lose grounding, meaning thins.
When meaning thins, decisions lose integrity.
And when decisions lose integrity, people lose trust.

We are living through that erosion.

This is why I wrote Poetic Futurism.

Poetic Futurism offers a new symbolic architecture — one capable of holding acceleration, ambiguity, identity complexity, and emotional truth without collapsing.

It returns us to capacities we were never meant to live without:

• steadiness under pressure

• clarity in the fog

• the ability to sense what is real beneath what is said

• boundaries that protect dignity

• meaning as daily infrastructure

• coherence when systems lose theirs

It is a reminder that leadership is not only strategy.
Leadership is the art of remaining a whole human being while everything around us speeds up.

Poetic Futurism is written for that exact moment — the moment when old language breaks and we need something sturdier, something truer, something capable of carrying us forward.