In A Millions Years Time (MS)

All that stuff we threw out

has vanished deep into the earth

or sunk to the bottom of our seas

the world has eaten our rubbish

too late perhaps for the perpetrators

to enjoy the tidiness.


Earth, resplendent from space,

filled as always with green life

blue and white skies

grey green blue seas

has scorched and drowned most of humanity

out of the picture

and every new moment

the planet dies

and is reborn

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