What Happens Next Poem by Valerie Dohren

What Happens Next?

So, what happens next?
The poets have penned their poems -
Their words falling onto blank parchment
like drops of rain.

The singers have sung their songs -
Their music falling on deaf or open ears
depending on the temperature.

World Leaders will have destroyed humanity
Leaving no vestiges of hope
for the future.

So, then what happens next?
The world will go on turning -
Tilting on her axis until, in the fullness of time,
all will disappear into infinity.

Most of us will have done our best
Though it will rarely have been good enough -
well, for me anyway.

The sun will turn red and then grow cold
The universe will contract -
to become a black hole?

So, then what happens next?
Well, nothing I guess -
Unless it all starts over again
another Big Bang!

And then, what happens next?

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