God created life and nature

Human beings created the rest

Looking around

All those artifacts

Products of human creations

Flood everywhere

Gifted with intelligence

Born with survival instinct

Ingrained with endless curiosity

Human beings will never cease to create

Non-stop creations and inventions have

Transformed cavepeople into flying men

Pushed human history forward

From civilization to modernization

Time wheel continues to roll forward

Knowledge growth accelerates

Creation speeds up

What will be the life of our offspring

In hundreds of years if mankind still exists

Will new technology allow them to

Hop from one planet to another

Roam in galaxies just like

We travel around the world

Alas, double-edged swords are our creations

Promoting human well-beings, but also

Levying heavily on Earth’s wholesomeness

Air, land and sea are all polluted

Space trash littered Earth orbits

Are we writing the last chapter of human history

With burgeoning toxic wastes we create

Will we blow up precious legacies of our forefathers

With nuclear weapons of our inventions

Time will tell

By Shih-Fang Wang

From: United States