The Last Poem

• Artist: urban_wolf1
• Description: What happens when the last poem was written, before mankind destroyed itself and survivors live in a new Ice Age?
• Date: 09/12/2008
• Tags: last poem writing postapocalyptic futuristic

The Last Poem

When all the poems have been written
and the saffron robes of the last king
have swept a dusty palace floor,
and a forlorn light on a metal dome
is the only sign of human life,
Someone deep under the cold planet,
hunched over a fire,
will say I wrote something.
His friend will reply
it can't be a poem;
all the poems have been written.
well, says the first, for now, I will call it
a poem