Extinction

by Hawki

Poem: Raccoon City was just the beginning. Within weeks, the T-virus had consumed the United States. Within months, the world. The virus didn't just wipe out human life. Lakes and rivers dried up, forests became deserts, and whole continents were reduced to nothing more than barren wastelands. Slowly but surely, the Earth began to wither and die.

Extinction

A virus across Earth is spreading,

And there's naught that Man can do.

Strikes down the living, raises the dead,

Kills animals, plants too.

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Look around, take in the dust,

Behold Eden turned to Hell.

Behold the rotten shambling bodies,

As their numbers surely swell.

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Take in the sense of despair knowing,

That none here are immune.

See the living roam the dust,

Trying to outrun their doom.

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And beyond sight, the chosen ones,

In bases deep beneath the earth.

Those who bear the white and red,

Who watch the world with mirth.

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Those who will survive the flood,

And find a new world for the taking.

Just need to wait, need to survive,

This horror of their making.

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They've brought about the end of days,

Now they watch the planet die.

A world shared by the dead and living,

Under uncaring sky.