My piece was inspired by our in class prompt: what do you imagine the world would be like if humans were stripped from its existence. Myself being an existentialist had a field day with this prompt.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hcom434_spring2021/1085/thumbnail.jp

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California State University, Monterey Bay Digital Commons @ CSUMB HCOM 434 Weekly Response Activities HCOM 434: Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling 2021 After Ashley Kohaut Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hcom434_spring2021 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the HCOM 434: Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling at Digital Commons @ CSUMB. It has been accepted for inclusion in HCOM 434 Weekly Response Activities by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ CSUMB. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@csumb.edu. Ashley Kohaut In depth piece   “Imagine a future world if people were suddenly removed. What might be left? How might the natural world respond? What will spaces evolve into? Create a short story, image, soundscape or other representation of what might take place. “    A world where we no longer exists. All that’s left are the bones of a world that lived too fast. People who worked till their feet went brittle. Songs created only to one day collect dust. A world without humans might potentially be a better place . Because without humans there is no consciousness. At least as far as science says. There is no more need to create , or existential dread. There is just life . Trees will root over our graves and curl between our coffins. Vines will crawl up the spines of skyscrapers. Those skyscrapers will eventually fall as tectonic plates crack the earths back. Birds nests will burrow inside empty rotting cars and the world will have to adapt to the decay of a hustled species .     I’d like to think that nature would just adapt and grow around the things left behind . But the reality is we will have left so much rot and decay that it very well could still eliminate life after we are gone . Bombs will detonate in time . Power plants left unattended to will leak into the soil and life around it . The reality is the world will never be what it was because of our massive imprint . In theory the world would have been much better had we not evolved into what we have . Mans need to create and destroy has left this ecosystem tainted for life .    If we were eliminated I can’t help but feel that something allege would evolve into a conscious being of sorts . I’d hope they would be kinder. That they would have better values and morals. That they wouldn’t be competitive and hateful. But I think consciousness creates toxic ness. To be so hyper aware of your existence creates resentment towards ignorance . Understanding time and mortality is a weight so heavy to carry that it drives most wedges .    But I’d love to think if we were eliminated that trees would grow, animals would mate , the air would be crisp and the skies would be blue .       To a reality where you  and I Sies to exist. Leaving behind The bones,  Of a world  Who lived too fast. Bodies who worked Till their feet Grew brittle. Paintings painted To collect dust    To a reality  Where consciousness  Subsides And existentialism  Implodes. Life has no meaning Other than to live  As such. To breath the air Our lungs were created for. To bath in the water  Our skins desire. Without you and I  Life exists in its purest state.   We leave behind ruins. A jungle gym for  creatures to inhabit. Where I hope the birds will nest  On the twentieth floor Of a skyscrapers never needed.   Our buildings will fall In due time. Exposing the horizons Of a new world. A pure world.   Our debri will root And seep into waters We took advantage of. We will have left our mark Of toxicity on this world. With radioactive kisses And holes in the food chain, We will have had a footprint So big  we couldn't fill them ourselves.   To a reality  Where you and I  Seis to exist.  The world  Can survive  As intended to. There is no bias, No intentions. Just purity And survival. A better place  

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