There is a moment when the tide turns,

when the Rubicon is crossed,

when historians say the turning point was reached.

 

When does the End begin?

Is it when the last breath is breathed?

Is it when the first cancerous cell splits?

It is when the toxins first enter the system that cause the cancer to grow?

 

Today the end began.

The world took a huge lurch toward global warming.

Maybe we could have stopped it.

Maybe we still had time.

Maybe we had not yet reached the tipping point.

 

Today the end of America as a super power began.

Today we moved towards being just another struggling nation,

competing tooth and nail, like any bully standing on a street corner.

Today the beacon of hope went out.

We just have not realized it yet.

It is still day time, it is not yet night.

The body still breathes, and it will for sometime.

But the die was cast, and we lost.

 

© words by Daniel DeMarle 2017