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What If?

June 13, 2016
By IlanaDavis24 PLATINUM, Rye, New York
IlanaDavis24 PLATINUM, Rye, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"900 Years of Time and Space, I've Never Met Anyone Who Wasn't Important."<br /> <br /> <br /> -Doctor Who


If the sun were to explode,

as a star normally does over time,

would we fell its rays engulf our earth?

 

If the ground were to open up,

say in an earthquake,

would we feel ourselves fall through the crevice,

only to disappear into the molten core?

 

If the oceans were to raise to heights unimaginable,

would our cities and our ports disappear into mystery,

just as Atlantis did thousands of years before?

 

If we as a species stay on the same path we are going,

how long will it be before mankind ceases to exist altogether? 


The author's comments:

OCD is an often overlooked illness, masked by what society believes is just 'the need to clean or organize'. OCD can come to me in the form of bad thoughts of death and destruction and hoplessness, and that is what inspired this piece. 


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