Long After Us
James York
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When our lights no longer glimmer Planes don't crisscross the sky Satellites fallen long ago Echo of radio long dissipated Statues toppled by wind Like toy soldiers thrown away In a world long after us Mountains of trash covered in moss Plastic leaks to the earth Polythene leaves fed by urethane roots Birds make their nests with our bags All things degrade I trust In a world long after us In a world long after us In a world long after us Bottle becomes a home to a crab Till one day he moves along And it's made to sand with each crashing wave Year after year your castle perched High upon the hill The same fate it will find Freeways and concrete jungles Once sat on the earth like a ship Vines wrap tightly around Patches of grey to rivers of green Creatures we once called beasts Take back what they once lost In a world long after us In a world long after us In a world long after us Cities once climbed up to the sky Now skeletons rusted out shells Water creeps into every crack Freezes expands and repeats Till by piece, nothing remains Not even the pyramids Covered and sinking, suffocated This hourglass will run out In a world long after us I pray that our stories remain Buried treasures for others to find On some tattered book with broken bindings They'll see what we aspired to be Of our pain and our loss And our laugh and our joy And our love
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