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The ashes

Of civilization

Blow across these ruins

A world once strong

Now dying on its knees

Memories of laughter

Have been replaced with pain

Survival too daunting

Has Become worse than death

The echoes of the dead

Haunt this earth like a graveyard

Running and hiding

Is the new way of life

Scavenge like rats

Beneath a ravaged city

Shattered, annihilated

like a colony of ants

So quickly, countries fell

Survivors roaming scattered

No armies could stand

Against this savage foe

Extinction is certain

The casualties are billions

The skies always black

With the ashes of the dead

The hours of the day

Match the blackness of the nights

The memories of the past

Died in the scorching fires

The Tears one shed

Now just a bleak reminder

The world is crawling

Slowly to its end