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under the lost perch dreams are dying birds crashing without batting a wing fungus growing in circular rings the thud of tiny footsteps hoping for a better day innocence just wanting to play sun tired ending its shift early moon oversleeping day and night cry oreo black across the sky nightfall crashing left and right neighborhoods acres of no light courts closed due to the dark ***** stop bouncing lost in the park darkness now spread from zero to one the end of light has just begun
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Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 at 11:18 AM UTC
Eschaton
My grandchildren will read The year had already passed, By the time they were born, To stop climate change. I don't know how they will get the information. I don't know when they will get the information. I don't know from what or whom it will be delivered, Or how it will be communicated. I'm sure the news won't and shouldn't come from me; Although it came duplicitously from me, and others; Driving them everywhere, flying around, BBQing animals. And all the entrapments of a twentieth century middle class life. The grandkids will have serious questions, Like Why? I have loved you to death. Will there be any to answer When the signal arrives in 2070?
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Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 9:07 PM UTC
Fermi Paradox, 2070
I've been on Earth for 5150 days And I've come to the conclusion that people are sick We have stolen for only ourselves We have killed without thinking twice We have persecuted for thrills We have taken advantage for satisfaction We have tortured for revenge We have blown up because of one man's instruction We have terminated species for space We have disrespected for payback We have decimated for attention We have walked out to lead a childless life We have betrayed for fictional assurances We have destroyed planets for Jordan's and KD's We have airbourned sicknesses to control the population It's what we're best at. No one alive cannot check something off of this list No matter how good our intentions are in this moment We have humanized ourselves I don't want to be humanized I want to change
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Apr 3, 2020
Apr 3, 2020 at 10:19 PM UTC
Humanized
I cant sleep no more my brain is too awake, alert, aware, scared, terrified its survival mode
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Mar 15, 2020
Mar 15, 2020 at 6:14 AM UTC
is it just me
just hit my second decade will it be my last? are the questions I ask in uni worth the breath I waste on it? the papers I write, the presentations I complete, is anything worth it? no one knows
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Mar 14, 2020
Mar 14, 2020 at 5:34 PM UTC
in my prime?
I saw you in the underworld when the earth collapsed The incendiary skies burned bright; Burning And I saw you beneath its scorching glare Standing by the banks of the river Styx Your supple skin marred and stained By soot and mud from below your feet And burnmarks; I know not where you got them I called your name Shouted it Screamed it But you did not hear me You did not listen Simply stared off into the distance Body glowing, body burning World glowing, world burning Burning Flaming Ablaze.
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Oct 29, 2019
Oct 29, 2019 at 2:55 AM UTC
Underworld
you slipped and slipped from my fingers until i could no longer feel yours and the earth devoured you, swallowed you, ate you whole you left me alone as the ground rippled and cracked beneath me you left me alone as the waters grabbed my ankles and pulled me down you left me alone as death came like raging ocean waves like an explosion so spontaneous i never had the time to open my mouth to scream your name you left me alone.
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Oct 29, 2019
Oct 29, 2019 at 2:53 AM UTC
alone
i don't want to die, not yet at least but the world is eating itself from the inside and i feel your fingers slipping away from my grasp the dogs are barking, their howls resonating in my head bouncing off the walls of my subconscious like sirens, a sign a sign of the end of times one that all should know of when the waters begin to swallow nations whole when the fires begin to devour the earth when the earth freezes over and shatters, drifting across the solar system when the earth burns to nothing but ash— —"but i don't want to die" i'll take what you said to the grave even if its the last thing i'll ever hold on to.
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Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019 at 10:56 AM UTC
i don't want to die
I have a secret stash, A tool box and an escape plan. I can blend into a crowd, Keep extra light bulbs And a can of gasoline, a roll of tape. There are no dull knives in the cutlery, All the coats are on hangers, Just in case of the drill. When the air temp drops I feel a hand grap my ankle. The chance of headless horses Clopping on asphalt afire is unlikely, There'll be no open graves or walking dead. The sun could blacken; But certainly, no voice will proclaim, In whom I am well-pleased. It took ten thousand years To fashion a bone hammer, And when I passed it I kicked it aside.
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Aug 15, 2015
Aug 15, 2015 at 8:31 AM UTC
The Bone Hammer
pointless to ponder anymore. The time for action is nigh! move forward regardless of what's wrong with the world. Sickened by petty problems and pitiful personalities. Just act! maybe the wheels of time Will march in our favour. If we're lucky Even nature could decide to join our crusade And we might surface triumphant! Whatever you do, Promise to keep walking while in this, Our deep illusory self made hell
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM UTC
keep walking