Long After Us

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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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