[kennyc]

Fate


The End:

Whether recording this is worthwhile
I will never know, yet I feel I must.
We’ve destroyed ourselves, our civilization.
We’ve known for centuries yet did nothing.
Some would say it was the bugs,
but they are only a result, we did this to ourselves.
In a final act of desperation the scientists
have loaded their arks with DNA
and launched them into the inky blackness of space.


The Denouement:

Born of the dying oceans they gather
in swarms. They descend upon the earth,
the cities, the people leaving nothing
but barren soil in their wake.

Miami was first, nothing was left
no buildings, no cars, no people.
Others followed, Hong Kong, London,
Leningrad as the bugs incessantly
made their way inland. Nuclear missiles
were absorbed by the swarm
as easily as were the cities.
Nothing could touch them.

When their deadly work was done
they disappeared back into the sea
from which they came. Scientists
found no clues in the wastelands
other than a complete and utter
lack of biological organisms.

The destruction continued as if
to wipe all traces of the humanity from the Earth.
Within weeks little was left –
no technology, no science, no capability,
no way to save or protect.


The Beginning:

The Jewel of the Sea slipped silently
into NewBoston Harbor. Her biocomp
trimmed and adjusted the solar sails.
Johann nodded his approval as the ship
slid into the assigned berth its belly filled
cargo from Eurosea. Life was good.



Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/2/2014