Nature Has Won

Elizabeth Dewar-Kudsi

I step into the station without people, Nature has won. Vines pierce through the windows and cover the tracks. I walk in the street with no fear of death. Each car is like a perfect planter box. The car alarms long ago sang their last cry, As the flowers shattered the glass. Nature has won. Each street light and telephone pole: a perfect place for ivy to grow. The city has become a garden and the buildings are the statues. Nature has won. I step over a fallen fence, a forgotten boundary. The animals are back drinking from the clean lakes, The horses are finally naked and the deer are not afraid. The birds are loud again and the squirrels have multiplied. Darkness settles in and the garden sleeps, undisturbed by light. Nature has won. The world of humans has ended, but the earth is not dead, The earth has regained power again.