[Verse 1]
Airport lights flicker down and off.
Lone survivors, we wait for daybreak.
In this vastness of our end
This voice echoes our solitude infinitely.
The cold steals the salt from my eyes;
The reflected losses that never fell.
Your hands are stained red
With the blood of six billion.
Where are your innocent now?
[Chorus]
Now all that's left is winter.
All that's left to do is walk this nightmare land.
Yesterday's sins are but echoes
Of tomorrow's ash beneath our shoes.
All the structure they made out of nothing
Returns again to dust.
Winter is all that's left.
[Verse 2]
Together we'll run from the fallout ash
And hide face down in our graves.
In memory we'll bury this cross in the snow.
And catching firey rain with parched throats,
We'll set sail across waterless bays.
Now silence falls around us
In the sifting dust...
Where are your innocent now?
[Chorus]
[Solo/Bridge]
[Outro]
The sky fell yesterday
And today we gather what remains
Of tomorrow.
But what if already,
Already,
We were the dead?
Author notes
Version 1- http://allpoetry.com/poem/3930209
It's literally about nuclear winter (look it up); basically the "end of the world". Figuratively, it means that in each of us we hold the seed of our own distruction and of our own success; it can go either way depending on what we do with it. It's also about starting over after the end.
And it's a warning.
"Nuclear winter" is a metaphor. There's more than one way to destroy a society...many ways other than dropping a nuclear bomb on it.
And more ways to die than for our hearts to stop beating.
Inspired by the concept of nuclear winter and/or the apocalypse, pretty much every dystopian book I've ever read, September 11th, Skylines and Turnstiles by My Chemical Romance, L'inverno (Winter) from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and some documentary about a comet crashing into Earth on the Science Channel.
Oh, and the last line is an allusion to 1984. =)
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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A good piece, filled with a lot of imagery. I could feel the lines of sorrow in this. I love winter.., well done on your write.
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