I've written another poem based on a painting by Michael Whelan 🙂

This one's based on the cover for a David Brin novel that I haven't read.

https://write.farook.org/footsteps/

The original artwork is here: https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/brightness-reef/

Footsteps
by Fahim Farook

On alien shores with golden skies,
She stares into the future with pensive eyes,
While the relics of a past long forgot,
Are gazed on in wonder by a tiny tot.

Cities with spires reaching for the skies,
Beheld in wonder by long gone eyes,
Now ancient relics that make you wonder,
What you’d find if ventured yonder.

Time comes for us all,
Proud cities crumble and fall,
Ancient races fall to dust,
Machines tumble, eaten by rust.

All that remains when races fall,
Is forgotten footsteps of those who stood tall,
Every race that heeded civilization’s call,
Must one day, surely fall.

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