THE LAST

Once/explorers/would delight /in frontiers-"the first!"to discover New Lands
Usually,there were Indigenous Folk living there
who had attuned to the earth and left minimal carbon footprints
They would cull and cut only when needed-never to excess
They also maintained population control
so resources were never depleted
Now there are no"New"Lands
Everything has been mapped via satellite and GOOGLE
Even space has been probed via HUBBLE Telescope
So we have arrived @THE LAST status-exterminated species
like dodo and dragon and unicorn-make fables out of what is lost
Science Fiction makes mutants ,clones,replicants
out of what we have done post-Hiroshima
and we watch daily as bees disappear and birds drop like planes from the skies
(These are not the "Last"Days-though they are for those who leave-
and we are not the "Last"folk standing/though our time is counted heartbeats
What you see and hear now different to your ancestors
What you experience different to your children's worlds
There is neither relief nor remedy for this
in fact,this is the last thing i will write...