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The Earth now lay in ruins only one survivor remained With his final message… he wanted to explain…. I was part of a race of humans he wrote… who didn’t know how to behave… Who didn’t understand what would happen Who took more than we gave… The things we did to this planet amounted to nothing more than theft. we took and we took and we took and now there’s nothing left… I thought like many others… I could abuse, destroy and deprave her I, too, ignored the warning signs… I thought someone else would save her. We destroyed the air we breathe our rivers our forests and our lakes…. Perhaps the next people who come along can learn from our mistakes… How sad…for we all knew the answers but never really tried… Then the man put down his pen and took one more breath… before he died.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 9/20/2019 2:42:00 PM
Nicely done.
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