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The Earth now lay in ruins 

only one survivor remained

With his final message…

he wanted to explain….

I was part of a race of humans he wrote…

who didn’t know how to behave…

Who didn’t understand what would happen

Who took more than we gave…

The things we did to this planet

amounted to nothing more than theft.

we took 

and we took 

and we took

and now there’s nothing left…

I thought like many others…

I could abuse, destroy and deprave her

I, too, ignored the warning signs…

I thought someone else would save her.

We destroyed the air we breathe

our rivers our forests and our lakes….

Perhaps the next people who come along

can learn from our mistakes…

How sad…for we all knew the answers

but never really tried…

Then the man put down his pen

and took one more breath…

before he died.