When the Clock strikes Zero🌤
And the road drops to Dark.

No one woke up this morning
There was no one to wake up
Our time was up.
The clocks had all struck zero.
Deep, deep within their Horology
🌤 An ominous prophesy was fulfilled
The final bell tolled.
The End - warned the prophets and seers
Beware when Zero stopped the mechanics
of all clocks everywhere
People scoffed...myth and old legends
We are in control of the workings of the clocks
There is no end or beginning
We simply just...ARE
But it all did end today...
Sadly, there were no people to see it
To hear it within the final tick, tock
Tick, tock, tick, tock of the clock
Or the resounding menace of the last
toll of the bell.
The buildings stood firm
The trees swayed in the gentle breeze
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The Sky at Break of Day is a quiet harmony of awakening
A canvas where night’s final snore,
dissolves into the hush of morning light.
A beautiful day...for people to disappear!
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The Color Palette in the Eastern horizon, is a soft blush of rose gold and peach, like the sky arising from a dream.
Far above the world...hints of lavender and powder blue, fade gently into the deeper indigo remnants of night.
Clouds wander, in wisps of silver mist and cotton-pink streaks, sometimes tinged with amber as the sun begins to rise.
🌬 The atmosphere feels almost reverent - The air still, cool, with a trace of dew, as if the world is holding its breath.
No birds begin their morning ritual of tentative songs, no chorus, just scattered silence of curiosity.
No animals barked or meowed, no crickets chirped, no lions roared, nothing moved
No life chased through forests of green
No living thing is visible
Shadows are long and soft-edged, stretching like sleepy limbs across the earth.
🌞 Light
The sun hasn’t yet breached the horizon, but its presence is felt - a glow, not a beam.
Light spills slowly, like molten honey, illuminating treetops and rooftops in a gentle crescendo.
There's a sense of promise, of things about to begin, but not rushed - just unfolding.
Every living thing on the Earth had just vanished.
The clocks had rewound themselves -
To zero o'clock
Sensing a silent restart...
Utter silence resounded for a full minute...
As if awaiting something cosmic...Reverent.
Then the first new...TICK
As the world became poised to begin again!

Thus ended our "Chronos" (χρόνος) a measurable, sequential calendar of time.
A quantitative, linear progression of encompassing seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years.
In contrast came "Kairos," a specific, opportune, or significant moment in time.
"Chronos"...linear and measurable, "Kairos"... a specific, or God-ordained moment. It's a moment pregnant with significance and potential for something important to happen.
We had lived our Chronos...now Kairos begins again.
The world, like a long awaited road...tilts anew!
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About the Creator
Antoni De'Leon
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller).
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Comments (7)
Whoaaaa, that was outstanding! Loved your wonderful take on this challenge!
We need a revival-if it takes a revolution-let it be
We are due a renewal now...humans have reached a point of rejuvenation.
Wow the beauty of earth and time without humans. Great lessons within this poem. Love it. Amazing writing.
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The world needs renewal, indeed. Poignant, Antoni.
Well written. It’s always interesting to ponder what the world would look like with the absence of human inhabitance. You did a great job drawing that picture for us.