One Day

A mess of scattered old newspapers

Rose to cover stone skyscrapers

The clouds congregated to pay homage

To the days they last did sabotage

We watched the world turn to papier-mâché

But didn’t feel like there was anything to say

The seas returned their tears to man

And everything went according to plan

The walls were stripped of their dull hues

And we all celebrated upon hearing the good news

Forgot numbers of that number we wanted to call

We sat back and feasted our eyes on the festival

It appeared that the world had finally crumbled

And found itself equally happy and humbled

We stood up to the tides that previously caused us harm

By standing on falling cliffs with no sense of alarm

Materials and resources were all but depleted

But we remained silent; happily defeated

I took your hand, and you took mine

And we sat watching the moon knowing we’d be fine

Science was silent, the believers speechless

The stars were turning off to hide the coming mess

Not ugly, not bad, just the end of what we all had

Not rushed, just hushed, with no reason to be sad

As the Earth shimmied and shook

The universe gave back all that it took

And in one bright and final glow

It showed us all what we could never know

It said goodbye to you and me

And let us know that’s how it would be

We floated on like a phoenix from the ash

While the trash became treasure, and the treasure, trash

In one last breath we made peace with being

And opened our eyes to a brand new way of seeing

And when the world did indeed crumble

We stood, watched, and accepted, humble

…The lights went out…

…All the stars above…

…But we weren’t without…

…Because we were in love…