Sagan

I thought back to the days when I watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, all the wonder and hope and fear and challenge.
So much potential our species has… had…
Hearing the sirens blare, the warnings on the television.
It started with one bomb… then another… and then… too many to count.
Cities, countries vanishing in flashes of light and heat and fire and the most powerful winds to sweep across the world.
So few survived… so few wanted to survive.
All the hopes and dreams for the future, gone in storms of hate and greed and anger.
And the endless night.