Analyze with your eyes the demise of ourworld, fatal fury unfurled, twirled, whirled and conclusivelyhurled, natural disaster coming faster than the absolute power of anyreligious pastor, maybe the work of the supreme master, the messagemuch vaster than the previous themes before it, I choose to furtherexplore it, many choose to ignore it, but I plan to restoreit, restore what? restore when? restore who? restore how? restorewhere? restore why? restore perceptive concepts back into youreyes, I vocalize, asking why? mother nature, why is the aftermathof your wrath often a path to a continual bloodbath of innocentindividuals? Is this the repercussion of all the diabolical schemessociety has been up to? Why mother nature? Why do you send arelentless demon named Floyd, a horrendous hurricane hired to inflictpain with his forceful winds and rain, your beliefs insane I stillexplain, I continue to complain, I don't see through you liketransparent cellophane, and I still worry about what SadaamHussein will do to start another worthless war, before anotherAmerican gets caned in Singapore, before the ruthless robbery of yetanother liquor store, before I ask again the question why? Why do wego to war with Iraq? do they incite war or do we provoke it? Why doesit seem that America always, always has to be involved with everyoneelse's business? is it because we try to protect other countries oris it because Mr. President has to demonstrate that we can dominatein combat by sacrificing thousands of young men and women to establishhis message of madness? you tell me how the government works. Ishould go berserk on those political jerks and their corrupt systemof inequalities. one of my reasons is that the government we electselects the nation's top intellects to be architects for variousconfidential projects to design more nuclear weapons for war. Well, Iobject because it seems incorrect. Had they any respect, they'd thinkwith their minds. I recollect that the government uses thosebrilliant intellects to find something more important such as anantidote for the AIDS epidemic. I strongly believe that if thegovernment weren't so immature, there would've been a cure, but theywere too insecure. Sometimes it's hard to understand certain things.Why is it that the leader of the greatest country can get away withcommitting adultery, but I get convicted of a felony if I steal apack of gum from a company? Maybe a female president wouldn't be sobad so we can refrain from invading Baghdad ever again because theleader's corrupt cranium has just caused profound pandemoniumwhich has just been quite quarrelsome. If incompetence were a creditcard, he'd be promised platinum talking about how he smoked, butnever inhaled. Good thing he's gone in the millennium. Speakingof the millennium, one of the first initial terms that comes to mindis the word apocalypse, 10 letters, 4 syllables, 1meaning Webster's Dictionary defines it as the ultimate destiny ofthe world full of imminent disaster and the final doom, I assumewhen we all go boom the evil will definitely bloom andconsume, leaving no space for a little elbow room for any homelessman or wealthy tycoon, for any beautiful bride or her prosperousgroom I assume and presume, it seems no one is immune, so what wouldyou like on your tombstone? You might answer pepperoni and cheese,but if you please death is a catastrophic weakness, death is aterminal disease, death is not a common thesis, not your ordinaryhypotheses. It was the golden touch of Midas, it was the vulnerableheel of Achilles. prophets define the word apocalypse as the year2000, the y2k any day a doomsday, a Monday or Tuesday, a rainy dayor fair day, and even a bad hair day yeah, that's right, they2k when most individuals worry about their computers surviving theyear 2000 I worry about my soul surviving the year 2000 I guessthat the meaning of y2k compliant will just have to change because itwill be arranged that we pay for our deranged strange operations. Ifyou're familiar with the Bible, it was 2,000 years after the garden ofEden came Noah, the man who sailed the flooded land with two of eachanimal in hand as a command from the most high. 2,000 years afterthat man came Abraham, the first man to believe in monotheism whileall others believed in polytheism, his strong faith too powerful forsociety's criticism, after Abraham came Moses, the man who parted thesea to free his people into their ultimate destiny, after him cameJesus, whose genuine behavior salvaged the world. So who's steppingup to the plate temporarily to decide our fate? perhaps a feeblerookie or an undisputed heavyweight? someone who gladly heals orsomeone who lacerates? someone who guides or one who abdicates? isthere still enough time or is it eternal checkmate? do you reallythink that this corrupt world is worth saving yet anothertime, another monstrous mountain worth the climb, or another poemworth its concluding rhyme? sometimes I really doubt that andwhy? for example, we have ignorant human beings erasing otheridentities by just a little trigger squeeze that would make your bodyfreeze with effortless ease. prejudiced human beings adding to thedistress by attempting to address their race is far superior, allothers inferior is expressed well, I am not impressed, just merelydepressed since there is only one true race, the human race thatis. It seems ebony and ivory will never live together in perfectharmony because of certain impure individuals taking advantage oftheir power in today's society. Unfortunately, that I canguarantee. we also have greed taking over our land because people saythat money buys happiness when all it really buys is a session ofdepression, personal aggression, the compression of confession,obsession of self-impression, and the discretion of just one elementof the Armageddon. Do you even know what I'm trying to signify?Because one day we will all have to say bye-bye and certify oureternal lullaby. Can you even identify how you can purify your soulso you can be saved? That is one question you shouldn't ask me, youshould ask yourself because there is only one person who can everchange you, and that's you. So, face adversity and live life to itsfullest because you only have one chance.
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