you should have seen the world before it died
faces were ashen and bodies wasted
cosmic junk was scattered as shiny lies
food was poisoned and totally tasteless
lights had vaguely dimmed and sounds almost hushed
houses were vacant and crumbling apart
lives became stagnant and nothing was rushed
people died daily before thrown on carts
misery enveloped the world that we knew
atomic particles covered fields of decay
outer space refused to admit our flight crew
ghastly appearances made opinions sway
we tried and somehow failed to lead them all
no more planet Earth to give the roll call
Author notes
prompt:
"You should have seen the world before it died"
sonnet
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
A contest entry
- A sonnet please, by Titus.
700 points, ended November 30, 2008, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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This is an amazing Sonnet I have written one or two of them but you did much better then I have ever done thanks for sharing good luck in the contest be well.
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I believe the first line led you into this assessment of ourselves and I have seen some lovely sonnets, here we have much what the roll call has aimed, like destiny, a list here to give us thought, nicely done
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chilling! beautifully well expressed.
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Splendid and superb
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