After the plague, most towns and cities were abandoned to allow survivors to group together maintaining what we still had, rebuilding societies elsewhere. I decided on St Louis, an image of her Gateway Arch filling me with hope as I walked there.
As we stopped tending our landscapes, nature began taking over again. There had been talk of this return for a while, cracking sidewalks and crumbling walls.
It was as I left town that I saw it. I hadn’t thought nature would reclaim vehicles, yet there it was, a plant growing from a van. “Life finds a way,” indeed.
As we stopped tending our landscapes, nature began taking over again. There had been talk of this return for a while, cracking sidewalks and crumbling walls.
It was as I left town that I saw it. I hadn’t thought nature would reclaim vehicles, yet there it was, a plant growing from a van. “Life finds a way,” indeed.
Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt:
Copyright-Roger Bultot
It's doesn't sound so bad to have nature reclaim the planet. It's her turn, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteDear Jim,
ReplyDeleteNature reclaims. Humans haven't done so well with it.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Jim, I guess it'll be nature's turn now. Well written. : ) ---Susan
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