Legacy
Early 2010s poem that I barely revised aside from word choice and clarity.
What will remain when humanity is gone is nothing. Whether it be by strangers beyond stars far from our reach, the sun fizzling out and being swallowed by darkness, the hypothetical asteroid that turns out not to be hypothetical, or by typical human made folly through war over the deadly sins, Humanity will be gone.…
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