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This Is the Year When

This is the year when the sun dies  
When the moon is ripped  
From her gravitational moorings  
And is no more.  

No more risings, settings,  
Waxing, waning  
There will be no more of that  
No more signs in sun, in moon.  
 
This is the year when trees,  
Should they still be here,  
Will fall soundlessly in forests  
As stars wink out in stupefaction  
 
And children are eternally the precise age  
When the extinction event  
Slithers and slices into nonexistence  
At the very last moment of gasp  
 
When the molting raven croaks Nevermore.  
Let it not be in winter  
When the final trumpet blares out  
Its tin-earred tune to inattentive ears.  
 
Nor in Spring when daffodils  
Array themselves in the audacity of yellow,  
Uncurling langourously as they resurrect  
Once again from frozen earth, O foolish flowers.  
 
Or summer when the days grow unbearable  
And suddenly stop and the air conditioners  
Are all superannuated, no matter how new,  
No matter how creaky, how aged  
 
Even as I am creaky, cranky, aged.  
As I stare one last time at leaves  
Blushing in Autumn forests about to be silenced  
As Winter comes hobbling, lurching,
 
Swinging the scythe which slices blindly  
Through all my denials and imputations  
My alibis stacked in round-room corners  
Unread, discarded, in dust scattered profusion.  
 
Let it be, then. I have seen enough.  
The end comes lurching around yonder bend  
And what does it matter if  it bears dank oblivion  
Since there is no longer where nor when.  
 
Written by Mrd
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Author's Note
This thing just jumped out of nowhere. It’s unfinished but I can’t deal with it just now.
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