Remainder

Image: Art By Anima

Year by year

It spreads

The rivers run

Faster

And smarter

As mankind slows

Each day the roots

Get stronger

And the world

Gets greener and greener

The dams are burst

The bridges have fallen

No place to go

The guns have gone

The animals are strong

The rusty factory

Patched and old

That greedy game

At water’s edge

New grass grows

The deserts quiet

The oil fires quenched

Quarries closed

Mountains safe

Tankers docked

As we sit and stare

And the silence grows

And it all gets greener and greener

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Maths solved the problem

We wrote the script

It made the film

And finished the story

It’s the cast and crew

We’re the extras

It’s the last

Silent movie