[ WP ] - Humanity is extinct , after a global thermonuclear war . Write a poem about the last man made light going out .

The sudden flash, 
 
 the largest bang, 
 
 The metal all 
 
 Fell with a clang. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The concrete gone, 
 
 The grass is grey, 
 
 No moon at night, 
 
 No light in day. 
 
 
 
 Amid the ash 
 
 That slowly fell, 
 
 Inside the broken, 
 
 Man-made hell- 
 
 
 
 There stood one light, 
 
 One final spark, 
 
 A life within 
 
 The ruined park. 
 
 
 
 That streetlamp shone, 
 
 But shone so dull, 
 
 Drifting into 
 
 Winter's lull. 
 
 
 
 And once, I stood, 
 
 I saw that light, 
 
 And desperately 
 
 Urged it to fight, 
 
 
 
 Amid the birds 
 
 Whose wings were shorn, 
 
 The final men 
 
 Who cried, forlorn. 
 
 
 
 But with that 
 
 nuclear lullaby, 
 
 We realized that 
 
 All things will die. 
 
 
 
 After months, 
 
 The light expired, 
 
 And in our darkness, 
 
 We are mired. 
 
 I beg the man 
 
 Who reads these words- 
 
 To halt the fate 
 
 That man incurs- 
 
 If we come back, 
 
 I hope we will 
 
 All learn to love 
 
 And not to kill. 
 
 
 
 
 

