Directions: No End's Seen With Certainty (Quintuple acrostic)

No other race 'tween humans
Will matter save the last one
Each of us runs 'stentia.

So we betray our fealties
To no purpose if our best
Send-off under-throws honor.

LMC 29 Oct 09
[bored standing in line]

Quintuple acrostic:

N.... o... r.(c). t... h...
W... .... ...(e) ..... ...e
e.... .... ...(n). ........a
s. ...... ....(t).. ... ....s
t. .. .........(e) .. .. ...t
S.... o... u..(r) t.... h.....