by Jules Roberts

Created on: May 10, 2008   Last Updated: June 23, 2010

Earthly Nightmare.

My eyes must have rolled side to side
the night I dreamt that humans died
and in my slumber I was chilled
that nothing left behind was real.

I felt suspended in mid-air
as freezing wind combed all my hair
and through my frozen eyes I saw
the Earth below where I was born.

A sterile sphere stared back at me
amazed by its unmoving sea
and lack of colours that I knew
where I remembered things once grew.

There was no sense of change or time
or movement from this corpse of mine
but I knew I was not alone
as I heard our collective groan.

Of all the dreams I've not had yet
I don't think that I can forget
when the earth we trashed together
made us stare at it forever.

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