"The Last Man, Alone With God"

By s.p. burke

I asked the stars, what I may become
but did not wait for their reply
I reached out to, a great unknown,
barely glanced back, at the sky.

I danced inside the blackness
of an empty, hollowness,
and continued marking waypoints
inside unknown, abyss.

I waited not, her faint response
a glimmer shining through;
the doldrums of uncertainty
and self, I’d not recuse.

I knew then, as certain now,
as ever, I have been,
that I’m only resurrected
just to die alone again.

Existing only as an echo,
I can never walk amongst,
to fade away, and once more,
be nothing, but stardust.

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s.p. burke is a recently retired intelligence analyst in the US Army. Follow him here. Listen to our Savage Wonder podcast episode with him here.

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