After Us

After Us. A world without man Can’t exist in its vastness A dream undreamed When great cities are quarries And nights are utter horror Unrecorded dread Mother elephant trumpeting Survival to day In a time that is godless Phase is seasons of the vain Will it be better When storms blow without warning And love is absent When rivers flow and fish wake Words are echoes of the past. We are not to know As humanity is silenced Savannah grass and lions’ pride Will continue unexpressed No one will hear love’s echo