The Way it All Ends
It all seemed to happen just
like that ..
Before the eyes could blink
and the brain
could assimilate, or reason ..
It wasn’t even
a blur, but rather a smudge
uncontained,
within such a blinding light ..
And then seared,
unforgiving onto all available
retinas ..
Indeed, no one even heard it
coming either
and fortunately none of them
are thought
to have felt a single thing ..
Which is,
of course, insane under such
circumstances
but maybe, a blessing also
and now
more than likely unprovable ..
Without
a shadow of doubt though all
our very best
mountains began to melt into
deep pools
of molten, white hot glass ..
Whereas below,
the oceans boiled themself
merrily away
to absolutely nothing at all ..
and the steam
they exuded served to scare,
scald and scar
everything above the clouds
and all those
heavenly bodies that which,
only moments
ago once used to reside there ..
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Author:
Neville (
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A fine write N.
I sense Armageddon may only be a few votes away 🍄🌧️
No, it doesn’t!
differences of opinion are welcomed no less than any others in my book .. but I assure you, whether by some inadvertent accident, selfish design, or simply time just running out .. This is the way it all ends .. Neville
Apocalypse Now.
At first thought it metaphoric of a passionate meeting between two people but now tend to believe it is all too literal and climatic cataclysmic and final. Could be. Well worded to evoke fear in the bravest heart.
that was not my intention but so be it .. sometimes we need a good kick up the arse to get our act together .. cheers
Sometime I don't see the signs on the trail and take the wrong turn on a road less taken
Knew before I was not very far in, I would have to find out how to spell ‘Armageddon’. And further look up ‘Hiroshima’ and ‘Nagasaki’. And also ‘Apocalypse’ and perhaps ‘cataclysmic’. But there you go, by the time I dragged my tail here, the work had mostly been done for me…
Too easy compared with your original construction, Neville.
did ya really spot the re-shuffle .. or are you just playin mind games .. and I aint talkin John Winston Lennon neither .. 🐧👍
No it doesn't N. Because all the moron dictators came out to play their silly games of "Who can push the button first." Excellent write N. But very sad.
I am not going to hold my breath .. not while I need to finish off stocking up the bunker .. but yes, very sad indeed ..
before the brain could assimilate or reason. Steam served to scare really great
Stay with me here, in the movie Quigley down under he said he doesn’t have much use for handguns, but didn’t climax scene. It was the handgun that was his tool to overcome it. When asked he says I didn’t say I couldn’t use a handgun. I just don’t have much use for them.
Is all of a sudden you had rhyme on your pen today for a bit but though you don’t have much use for mostly it did feel the climactic tension in the poem. Thank you for this great piece, my friend.
under those circumstances, I am mightily impressed with the both of us .. thanks Bobby and my regards to your astuteness my friend .. Neville
You set a high bar that fosters aspiration.
If only the people in our world cared Neville, if only.....
Andy
........................................... Amen Andy
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