All that’s left is a mound of detritus—
Barely enough to remind us it stood
Tall and strong as the family that held
Sway over it, a domain now infested
By burrowing creatures of the night—
Let’s say blind earthworms with feelers
Breathing through dank skins, sensing
Their way through the dark by gauging
Changes in the ever-changing light.
The family may have stood tall and strong, but where are they now?
ReplyDeleteWhereas the earthworms -- their intelligence preternatural, their persistence blest by time, their song unceasing.
#04 especially but all of them remind us "we are a failed species".
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