Clean Sweep of Time

 

A million years from now, no one will care.

Of course the history of reality proposes

that humanity on the face of Earth will no

longer be there.

So, with that in mind, I write these lines.

We were on the verge, society that is, of

getting it right. We knew better, had the

foresight and lord knows the ability to

save ourselves from oblivion.

But being the self-centered, power-seeking,

biased and self-loathing species we evolved

to be, we haplessly pushed ourselves over

the edge into the abyss of extinction.

Like so many epochs and societies of our

kind which preceded us, we failed to work

together in harmony to preserve the natural

life-sustaining re-sources of our once beau-

tiful and abundant planet.

Routinely, we slaughtered other species

and our own kind with grossly misdirected

impunity, using our methodological gods

and pathological pretenses to control and

suppress one another.

I am but one who portrays the delusional

and inherent human trait of narcissism in

thinking that these thoughts and these dis-

posable lines of mine could ever hope to

survive a million years and the ever-present

and indeterminable clean sweep of time.

(Good luck with that.)

                              -30-

Chris Hanch 2-15-2023