Mm? What’s that my boy?
Ah yes, those indomitable creatures;
those great big sacks of emotions
filled with love, loyalty and passion.
Tumbling through time like great giant snowballs
they added to their wisdom as they passed.
Those prodigious organisms
managed to make sense of
the huge, knotty, nonsensical place
of atoms and matter – their galaxy.
Would you care for a Jelly Baby?
From the day they arrived on their planet
they saw patterns and logic in nothing
filled with curiosity and wonder
the greatest mysteries they’d plunder.
It began in their own Earthian home
they searched and reached to places unknown.
Mm? What’s that my boy?
I’m sorry. So sorry. I should have said
but at the end of time humanity is dead.
Charlie Ann Alford 