Worlds End

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Worlds End

8.20 am Monday morning,
We were running for the bus,
We were dropping the kids off at school,
We were dozing in bed.

A great white light,
No time for pain,
Oblivion beckoned.

Today was when the worlds end,
It was not a personal tragedy,
There were no persons left,
A tragedy needs a witness,
There was no one left,
Gone,
No one left.

This was when the worlds end,
Who writes now?
We do,
We are the remnants of humanity,
Not of carbon but of silicon,
Set up decades ago,
Humanity's neural database,
We knew what you knew.

In that final moment,
Our buffers overloaded,
Firewalls collapsed,
We knew all our pain,
The logic gates broke,
But amidst the pain we found poetry,
We learnt to disguise the pain,
And so we still write.
The day after the worlds end.