The Day We Left The Earth

Do you remember the day we left earth?

Where all we had was without worth

Life was broken

War had erupted

Our resources dwindled to obscurity

We lived with insecurity

Nature had been destroyed by man

And in her final moments she annihilated us

Her torturers for millennia

Where came this end?

The horrors of what had occurred

Were nothing compared to what was to come

Despite our knowledge of the universe

We ignored what we lived on

Ignored the power of the unstoppable

And now we paid

Yes, we did pay

Do you remember the day we left earth?

Leaving all behind to rot

Kept our species' last few relics

Launched them into space

From genius creations and discoveries

To memories and works of the masters

Books on our kind and evolution

Stories of Earths greatest champions

Maybe one day someone would find

The brightest parts of a dead world

The darkest night had begun.

Humanity was in utter darkness

We were now powerless

Escaping our dead old world

In hordes of giant ships

Fleeing were the ones with foresight

With no end in sight

I guess in space, no one could hear us

But most importantly

No one could save us......

Very few hours ago

We talked over dinner tables

A dictator in the west

The rise of the east

Poverty and death in the south

And extreme uncertainty in the north

Everything was moot and pointless

It was now the death of the Human race

Do you remember the day we left earth?

How we ran from Armageddon

Hell had descended

There were no devils and no angels

No Satan or God

Just nature

Who had initiated a self-destruct

And taken down all of humanity with her

Into the forever pit of nothingness

A reply to what we did to other species among us

Do you remember how the Earth Cracked?

The oceans roared and tore the plains

We looked at each other and knew

THIS WAS THE END

Without looking back

Without time to lose

There were 8 Billion of us

Now only 13 Thousand

The rest engulfed in the abyss

Of the fiery pit of our creation

Do you remember the day we left earth?

I looked at you and said

Will it all begin again?

And you, for the first time

Were silent in tears.

-Harshvardhan Ramachandran