Writing from the stemistry lab
Abandoned
by Barbara Gordon
We were left to our own devices and we failed ourselves.
Forsaken by logic, deserted by reason.
And neither talisman nor incantation can cast a magic spell.
We are now abandoned with no one to look after us.
The sun hangs over a dry land.
The planets continue their ceaseless ellipses.
Waves and winds rage and storm
Then continue their sough and sigh
As it has been for ever, and will be forever.
But we are orphaned and soon we will die.
No prayer will be said to remember us by.