Revere the Grayest Pile

How best to commemorate
The end of what you know when

It’s a race between you and
What you know as to which ends

First? It seems too typical,
The prophet’s deathbed warning

About the dire times to come.
The warning’s for the prophet.

For the collective, the line
Of all lives hunger-braided,

Even massive extinctions
Come along in the middle.

The prophet could imagine
Permians leading Edens.