The End Of The World - Poetry
The boy sat on his grandfathers knee
On a rocking chair that was close to the sea,
Tell me the story of how this began,
This world we know, this age of man!
He looked at his grandpa with innocent eyes,
Grandpa chuckled,
And said
I'll tell you no lies
The Apocalypse is what I will tell
It's not what you expect
So listen up well!
Learn the lessons made by your kind,
As forward you travel
Through life, space and time...
I'll begin..
It started on a Tuesday afternoon if I recall,
I was playing with my friends,
In a game of baseball!
The sun was shining,
The sky was clear,
The birds were singing in my ear!
And then the judgement came...
Fire and brimstone? the boy chipped in,
What was it like?
Did the people riot?
No, said grandpa, a twinkle in his eye,
Nothing like that,
It was surprisingly quiet!
The silence came first,
Like none you've ever heard,
Heavily, it descended upon the earth.
HEAR NO EVIL said a voice
Not to missed,
And as if it was magic,
Sound ceased to exist!
Next came the darkness
As the sun turned true black,
SEE NO EVIL said the voice
THERE IS NO LOOKING BACK!
In the silence and darkness
That the world had become,
Time stood still for a while
And the Earth became a drum,
Beating a heartbeat so it was,
Loud, true and clear,
You couldn't ignore it,
It was all you could hear!
People all over the planet had stopped,
Fearing the worst,
To Earths heartbeat they rocked.
They rocked to and fro
And this rock turned to dance,
The planets population,
Animals, and plants
All moved as one
All over the Earth
The heartbeat got faster
No-one saw Death
Approach
And take just a few,
The ones with black in their hearts,
And minds that were cruel.
Those that were left
All dancing as one,
Asked of the voice,
What have we become?
The greed and hate that rules our lives,
How can we change,
Tell us no lies!
The heartbeat, it rumbled..
Turned into a roar,
Then suddenly
Silence
Overtook as before.
SPEAK NO EVIL said the voice
SPEAK IT NO MORE!
And then it was over,
Just like that
The End
And the new dawn of man
Was left to contend
With what was left
When the sun switched back on,
Which was nothing you see,
Everything was gone!
I'll end my tale there
The grandfather said,
Shifting the boy and nodding his head.
The rest's up to you,
To know right from wrong,
For the Earth, she get's mad
As we've known all along!
Another chance we've been given
But it's the last chance saloon,
If we get it wrong now,
We'll be dancing to a very different tune!
