Prompt from Hour Six for Hour Eight

I see hellfire rising to embrace the follies of mankind,

a burning platter of human flesh falling from the earth into the abyss.

Evil does exist but only in the hearts and minds of the arrogant, the selfish.

No godlike being has condemned us, we have done that ourselves.

What the world needs now is love.

Redemption? Is that possible?

Turning our thoughts outward

from our self-centred preoccupations?

How many need to protest, to write, to sing, to cry, to scream,

Enough is enough?

Questions without answers.

Answers without actions.

I see an earth reborn, free of humanity,

like the phoenix arising from the ashes,

a fertile planet, abundant with life,

no longer struggling to survive.