They Left

One day I woke, a

Cool cloudsome day and

They had left.

The cities, the fields

The vast distant plains

Abandoned, 

All gone in

One Almighty Rapture.

Billions taken away

In the night

To leave me

Alone.

Alone to witness 

The passing,

The passing 

Of humanity 

To give a

True reckoning of her

Deeds her misdeeds

Her strides and her stumbles.

And to live out 

The rest of my days

In fierce desolate solitude.