"The Time Had Come"

the time had come
the power is off
the mountains are still
the woods is quiet
the cities are silent
the earth is smouldering
highways are crumbling
fires are burning
the sun obscured by smoke
the hills hold the survivors
stunned by their disbelief
what has happened
we were told of this
perhaps too many times
for too long
so we fell into denial
laughing our last laugh
looking for something
to help us remember
how we got to this end
with no tomorrow
as we walked through the rubble
left behind on a devasted planet
looking for a sign of life
as we knew it
we found the photographs
wet, torn and stained
strewn about in the wreckage
of the home sweet homes
showing us what was
where we had somehow survived
in a lost world
of the innocent and guilty
how could we not have known
the time had come