I'M Going To Sleep For A Thousand Years Poem by Guinevere Eveleigh

To see if the world ends before I awake.
I'm going to dream a million dreams
just to see if anarchy succeeds.

I want to know if cities will crumble
or if countries will be drowned.
I'm anxious to see if we will freeze
or face starvation with its iron crown.

If I awake after a thousand years
Will there be anyone left to wake me?
If I awake will there be any greenery
or will it all be glass and concrete?

Or maybe the earth will be dead
like an empty, decayed skull.
Will there be any life force left?
Or will we have sucked the ocean out?

I shan't sleep for a thousand years
because I'm too afraid of what I will find.
I shall enjoy earth the way it is right now
And just pray things will turn out alright
for the next generation of our time