The Forever Man

On the third day of always

The forever man arrived

With a bag full of yesterdays

That had somehow survived

He had transcended time

And flown across space

For he'd learned of our crime

And he knew what we'd face

Our folklore had told

That when ours was done

The new time and the old

Would just melt into one

He'd been to forever

And thus he was named

But he didn't know whether

We could justly be blamed

We were given a world

And we ruined its past

When its future unfurled

It just couldn't last

With so many now dead

And more death on its way

He cradled our head

And showed us yesterday

Like a slideshow from god

What we had was on view

The green where we trod

And the oceans when blue

But with each passing shot

All the greens turned to brown

We'd put a match to the lot

And in black seas we'd drown

We realised too late

Why this man from elsewhere

Was showing us our fate

When the time's past to care

He said 'Know your sin'

As his time overflowed

After pulling the pin

So our star would explode

On the fourth day of always

We were finally gone

With nothing but haze

For the moon to pull on

And the man from forever

Knew that there'd be more

He just hoped that he'd never

Need knock on their door...