Lost Humanity
All there is now is wasteland With a few pockets of humanity Humanity may be too strong a word There are a few thousand of us left But I haven’t seen humanity in anyone Not for decades When most of us died, a lot died with us Compassion, empathy, warmth The air and water turned to poison Some had the means to build defenses Complex air filtration systems Self-contained water reclamation Domes went up over a few communities Soon the soil outside became toxic Nothing would grow outside the domes Those outsiders that didn’t die coughing blood Began to starve before long Those of us inside watched Let them die slow horrible deaths But the environment inside was fragile It could only support so many Could only feed so many Could only house so many To keep our community alive We had to leave our souls behind Now emotionless survivors are all that remain Now we are truly lost.