In an instant and without a word of warning,
A billion years’ worth of existential glue
Dissipated into the ether
As he took a final breath of our sickly air.
We’ve been struggling ever since.
The misery caused by humanity’s follies
Exhausted his everlasting grace
In just a few decades;
A blip on the radar of time.
We have unhinged the universe now;
That is what we do.
“You have brought this upon yourselves,” he laments.
Heterochromatic eyes glaze over with grief.
“Please,” we beg,
“Come back to us.”
Our fatal flaw:
Never knowing what we had
Until we killed it with our own hands.
A million civilisations in the cosmos
But we were the most desperate.
Even the savior of all
Cannot save us now.
We loved him as we love our Mother;
Still we turned a blind eye to his sickness,
Still we let her wither away
When she had nothing left to offer us.
We watch skyscrapers collapse,
Petrol fires blaze,
Holes being torn into skin
With the ease of a pencil through paper.
We plead for his forgiveness,
With a rotting feeling in our stomachs
Telling us he will never come.
The stars shine differently now,
Dimmed by the pollution of city lights,
Yet still we gather to watch for him.
Still we wait for him to fall to Earth again.