Monday, July 25, 2011

Rapture (Nec Speculum Strato Vidisti? - Did You See No Mirror?)

The World may end
     but the Earth will remain
She may heave a sigh of relief,
     she may feel a moment of grief
but in the end she will go on just the same,
     content in knowing Man is finally gone
For after all the millenia she has been set upon
     it would be time for her to catch up,
rest up and start all over again
    
Would remaining Seven Wonders still remain,
     would the Sphinx still stare unblinking
as the skyscrapers fall one by one
     like dominoes in a concrete chain?
    
How long before the Golden Gate leads to nowhere
     while pyramids in the jungles still stand proudly
 shadows falling on the Snake Stairs 
     as they have for centuries in the humid air?

Would you be taken up in the Rapture,
     or would you be left behind with a camera
trying to capture the last moments
     before the glowing turns brighter
turning those left behind into melting candles?

Do you deem yourself worthy
   or are you now in a hurry,
trying to make up for lost time
   after a lifetime wasted, barely tasted
standing, stuck as always in the wrong line?

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