Millenium Poem by Frank Halliwell

The year two thousand's been and gone, our world is confident,
The dreaded menace, Y2K has been a non-event!
We blunder on, as man has always blundered in the past,
Treating our heritage with scorn while others watch, aghast!

The Ozone layer has all but gone, much to no one's surprise,
And deadly radiation streams down on us from the skies!
The frozen ice at both the poles is all melting away,
And people of the south sea isles are just the first to pay!

Our fellow creatures on this Earth, we've driven to the brink,
A quarter of the animals that were, are now extinct!
We've stripped the planet without thought of far more than we need!
And placed ourselves in jeopardy through thoughtlessness and greed!

We never owned the planet, but were merely the trustee
And rampages of storm and flood were plain for all to see
All mankind knew the reason that our world had gone awry,
But it was not our fault of course, it was the other guy!

And so, one day it came to pass, one early Sunday morn...
The time for sunrise came and went, no new day had been born!
Somewhere an audit had been done, and man had come up short!
Our stewardship called to account in one final report.

We huddled in the missing dawn, and gazed up at the sky,
A grim sense of finality, but no one wondered why!
For man had earned his destiny, of this there was no doubt,
And high above us, one by one, the stars were blinking out.