The Dead Earth! (a Poem in Two Parts)
15) The Dead Earth!
(The first woe)
Like dead leaves in a fall storm
…said the earth to God:
“I can’t take it anymore!”
and thus, rolled over on its belly;
and then came an earthquake
in Pakistan
(in the year of 2005): 52,000
Died…
and mighty hurricanes, named
Katrina, Rita and Wilma
attacked mankind, filled the sky,
touched the ground with pale death;
and I saw the birds of earth
cry: “…death, death…” (the world wept)
and…
(and war was everywhere
in the year of 2005;
and this was just the beginning,
of the fist woe; and there were many wrinkles
in the eyes of mankindand he
Cried!…)
God, He looked down
(from His throne up high)
Said…:
“The, ‘Second Woe,’ will soon
be fed…”; and the earth cried:
“Am I to die a second time?”
And in the bleak, ‘Bay of Hate,’
God’s angels knew quite well,
it was too late…the earth was
Dead!…
Escape!
(The second woe)
Now, I was surely in a fix
Standing by my home in Lima,
absolutely defenseless:
as the Antichrist, and Devil:
His Demons, surrounding me
the earth still on its belly,
Dying…!
Death was pale and black, bleak
Within the skies and seas
there were only ghouls left…
and I knew with in the minute
they’d be upon me…
My end…!…
Was this my end (I murmured)?
Thus, spinning and diving
came rocks, fire, and storms,
over coasts, mountains and shores.
And pacing the earth was
The Great Serpeant, the Devil,
Lucifer!
“Well,” I said, and then fled
to the other side of the mountain,
and like a bird, I flew to the heavens,
and then I heard, and heard it well,
“Now comes the Great Tribulation!…
Hell…!!
Note: written 10/22/2005, #902 6:20 AM, “Woke up this morning, and wrote this poem out, after watching CNN, and the current events.” In Huancayo, Peru.
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