Solstices Don’t Depend on Weather

Of course humans won’t survive.
If people grasp anything,
Bodily mortality

Really ought to top the list.
Humans will die, every one,
And people will be replaced,

But the question is will they
Continue to be replaced
By further waves of humans,

Or by less and less human
Descendants, or by nothing
In the human line at all?

That question can’t be answered,
Not by science, not by poems
Cheeky enough to dare ask.

But even a poem can state
One reliable forecast—
Of course humans won’t survive.