Last Man (contest I Believe in Something too Quickly)

In a time that’s not marked
by the hands of a clock
nor the afterglow of setting suns,
Superman overflies a luminous, beholden Earth.
He has accomplished his mission.

No dams with fearsome cracks
nor bad men sabotaging railtracks.
Car-bombs threaten nobody’s lives
nor do schoolkids wielding knives.
Suicide pilots surrendered their powers
and there are no more fiery towers.
He spies no damsels to save from misfortune,
He eliminated genocide and torture.
Cataclysms and destruction have ceased,
there are no refugees adrift on high seas.
He ended conflicts under a Peace banner
and taught people plain good manners.

Lois bad farewell to her office
(there are no office workers left),
no heart dreams her,
no bespectacled Clark Kent
wanders corridors with naïve formality.
Nobody wanders anywhere.

Superman triumphed over brute Nature
and solved the Original Cypher,
rewrote the human genome
and the DNA of all living things.
Emptiness hails each fresh sunrise,
all bonds and passions flown,
he wings his way through lonely skies.

Of a sudden, he descries a twinkling light,
signal from essential realms.
Last Man,
Superman sets out on his long flight
to the source of Consciousness and Love.
He bows before Being itself,
all spirits...One.