oh, oh yes.
that's what they had named themselves—
the humans.
one day they will all be gone.
every one of them.
the stars still shine
and the seasons still change
and the animals are no longer harmed
though the earth is empty
it is lonely, you see?
humans were quite a mess, weren't they?
the stars laugh.
oh, oh yes.
the humans.
only existing for a blink of an eye,
in astronomical terms, that is
funny how it seemed like forever to them
but to the universe
they were nothing but another species gone by
but to themselves
they were everything
