epitaph

The machines had long since gone quiet. Silent corroding, crumbling sentinels whose fervent labors for man had mercifully ceased, standing guard over a distant past of convulsive, divisive change. Electricity, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, corporations and governments with their self serving pressures, stresses, meaningless efforts and way of life all lie unceremoniously buried there with them.
Mankind historically romanticized their past, spending ludicrous amounts of precious time and dwindling resources in the fruitless effort to uncover and learn from those long dead, failed civilizations.
Blinded by the lust for fame and notoriety they easily missed the point.
Yet the answer was there all along, right in front of their faces. The ancestors had left behind one truth that no amount of dust could bury.
The great lesson screaming out from all the chaos and rubble,
"our children, this is what NOT to do".......