TED ESKİŞEHİR COLLEGE / 11-A
Mankind Is
No More
Ekin İNAN
A civilisation of mind, was born without a heart,
Shaped the world to their will, careless of what they harmed.
Bent their own rules to fit them, just like a lens refracts light
“No,” they’d say, “as long as it’s for us, everything is fine.”
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They flattened the mountains, to walk
And created new ones to bury their shame
Destroyed dens
To build domes and obelisks m
Now, they ask: “What’s wrong and what’s not?”
“We need an answer” they claim, “Then won’t everything will be al
Yet even they themselves know that it will not.
Won’t they just change it when the time is right?
And now, yet another question: “Should an autom
Arming the same ones we use in factories , should it be done an
Sounds eerily familiar to this world’
A corpse prod
“The planet will burn into ashes” some cry,
Yet no governor would ever reply
For they know that it would cut their supply
Their supply of riches and life.
They have burned the world, yet the
They plan on sailing to new horizons, unseen to the
To grow and t
“Thus, they set sail again - to repeat every single mistake of the h