I was the last person on earth

I once dreamed a dream

I was the last person on Earth

charged with saying goodbye

to the end of the human race

watching lastly

our kingdoms fade–
saying goodbye

to the trees

to the clouds

to all the ways we’ve come

and the loves we’ve been

to the wars we’ve fought

and the cities we’ve built

I am the last

the last to fade

beside this tree

on a hill

blowing in the wind

not sad

even smiling,

What a stand

what a stand we made

and this is where it ends

and too where we began

as a pure white light.

So in that gentle breeze
beside that gentle tree
I smile brightly
and say goodbye
one last time
as we fade
back into the dust of it all.

-Atticus