I saw the land and it was tohu vvohu, and in the heavens no light. I saw the mountains tremble and all the hills break apart. I saw there was no man and all the birds of the heavens wandered away.—Jeremiah 4:23-25
It will happen
Humans will lose control of the weather
And no longer rule over the forces of land and water
Their beasts will disperse and fall silently on parched plains
Crawling creatures cease to swarm
Birds search in vain for a place to brood
Leviathans untracked in the oceans retract without struggle
Fish choke in the seas
The moon will break off and spurn its barren mother the Earth
The sun expand to take back its vassal satellites
Lights in the night sky dim to extinction
Vegetation will be stripped of its leaves
Grasses shrivel back into the soil and rise no more
Rocks and ice chunks floating through space
Losing their anchors among the deadened stars
Will dissolve into elementary particles
Which eventually will relinquish their charm and spin
And the quivering waves left behind
Burst their boundaries and blend indistinguishably
And eventually the cosmos will host only a faint background radiation
An infinitesimal unpulsating light indifferent to place or time
And even that not will be noticed
To be published in the Doomer Anthology.
Andy Oram
May 22, 2022