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Our Terminal Sundown

April 7, 2019
By DeafeningSilence GOLD, Surrey, British Columbia, Other
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Favorite Quote:
“People are unequal, not because Hammurabi said so, but because Enlil and Marduk decreed it. People are equal, not because Thomas Jefferson said so, but because God created them that way.” - Yuval Noah Harari

“Since it is possible that you may depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.” -Marcus Aurelius

“I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand.” - Coldplay, Viva la Vida

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Appreciation for the last of days

May scorching heat have humanity spared

Onyx seas with plastic grays, livid bays

Death welcomes us with its final fanfare


Technology sought fatal fallacy

Man’s Hubris carried his leaden casket

Centuries of sinners cried ‘novelty’

An inferno ablaze from spare ashes


Now we bid Firmament a last farewell

Our shattered earthly glass cannot be healed

As man built firewalls without citadels

With Courts of Conscience amid iron fields


A crimson sun inflamed worldly ghost towns

A chorus sings for terminal sundown.

© Jennifer W., Saint Albans, WV

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