The Return
The Return!
Echoes resonate - in vast empty streets
Confining humans with apps and with tweets
Papers flutter down dark hollow caverns
Shops now closed - and so too the taverns
Cats stroll their beats – midst mice and midst rats
Street lights – besieged by midges and bats
As greedy mankind no longer holds sway
The animal world emerges to play
Retaking the Earth – what an undreamt of day!
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Streams now run clear – fish skip in delight
Clear, clean blue skies – No pollution in sight
With humans contained within locked-down cells
Choirs now silent – and so too church bells
Gone is the noise of foul exhaust smells
Now all that’s heard are bird songs in dells
That some men will die - this much is true
But neither in cages – nor in the zoo
And those that survive will be very few
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With wildlife now free – and mankind now doomed
Afraid to come out – by virus entombed
With car batteries flat – men staying indoors
No foot prints outside – just prints made by paws
Observed with joy by a lone garden gnome
Who silently shouts – stay at home, stay at home
The Earth now improves – as masked men decline
And the animals sing – now they will learn!
You’ve had your chance – now it’s our turn!
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Copyright © Henry Spencer | Year Posted 2020
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