Top of the World

By Joseph McGowan

The top of the world overlooking the vast blue ocean
Mountains rise catching shadows in the canyons
Blue skies hide the fires that once lit up the night

The smell still lingers
Only memories left of life once shared
The land’s scars are quick to heal,
but I can feel its pain

Rain has come like tears from the heavens,
and life is again reborn
A vast emptiness of silence,
Only you are by my side

We stand like the last two humans on the face of the earth,
Watching over her beauty

Grass blown by the wind dances
The silence is broken by the wind rushing through my ears
She waits silently as I tell my story on a sunny day on the top of the world.

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