Profound! Nice work.

Thanks mate : )

You could base a good horror movie on this.

From dust we begin, to dust we end.

great

Ashes to ashes dust to dust as they say. Let’s hope the world isn’t overrun by zombies and more importantly if it is… I don’t want to be one of them lol.

A powerful poem this-thanks Sharpdon!

Good poem

Great detail for such a subject. Well penned with good imagery.

You wouldn’t be a cynic would you Sharpedon? What about the Teilhard de Chardin fire behind it all? Give us just a smidgen so we can keep on keeping on. Cheers, Pippe.

Thank you for your comments and the encouragement.

Dear Pippe I am certainly neither a cynic nor a pessimist, this poem is pure fiction, totally unrelated to my ideas or beliefs.
My vision of the future is indeed very optimistic, like de Chardin envisioned.
What I don’t know is whether there will be a dark prelude -as in my “Rediscovery of Fire”- before we finally see the light or not.

The reason I write dark and pessimistic poems and stories has to do with my very first short story, some 3 to 4 years ago :
http://vampirelles.blogspot.com/2009/07/paradise-found.html
It was ultra optimistic but it (its greek version) was rejected by a greek sci-fi/fantasy/horror magazine. Later, when I wrote and sent a dark, conventional, clichéd, near-end-of-the-world short story (still only in Greek), involving an accident with nanobots that nearly had for breakfast the second largest Greek city it was immediately accepted and published – not in that magazine but in a real printed book, along with ten other stories..

Wow. Good poetry. By the way, I am fascinated by Greek mythology.

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@ Lilly Indeed, that was exactly the point