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# Half Life
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/half-life/
- Published: 2022-04-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: like radioactive elements civilizations have a half life
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

like radioactive elements  
civilizations have  
a half life

that point past which

most goodness  
has been spent  
and darkness looms