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Doubt surrounds us all

The future is uncertain

But I am steadfast

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THEY TRIED

I'm accustomed to the year three-thousand;

This life seems normal to me.

But, sometimes, I am reminded

Of how life used to be.

I believe that once there were flowers,

And a booming population;

But I have never known anything

But dust and devastation.

We're the End-Of-Time generation;

Procreation stopped long ago;

We know that life is ending,

Though the ending has been slow.

I passed this rusty artifact

As I walked the other day,

And it reminded me of the fact

That it need not have been this way.

It was nearly a thousand years ago

That people realised

That they were living on a planet

Which should have been greatly prized.

But, by then, the time was running short;

The race was nearly run;

Too late they realised that their hope

Lay in the wind and sun.

They footled around with windmills

And other ways and means;

But the urge to quarrel and disagree

Was in everybody's genes.

This rusty piece of technology

Bears witness to human pride;

They never did find the answer.

Oh well, at least they tried.

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