Life Behaves

That’s one proposed way

Of confirming it—

If there’s behavior

Going on, it’s life,

It’s alive! Assays

Of motility

Have been recently

Mooted in Nature

As potential tests.

The difficult trick

Will be weeding out

Human behaviors

That tend to extend

Semantics over

All phenomena

And use metaphor

To extrapolate

Meanings from objects—

How often have you

Seen some agency

In a tumbling leaf?

Alive? Exactly.