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Is This What Awaits?
And so go you, jovial heathens from hell
Lay your seige upon this world
Better now than leaving us to rot in this inferno of our own rendition
While remnants of the past breed unrealisitic toxicity
Of the glory and pretenses in which we once toiled
These ruminations are naught
For we have descended beyond the etheral grasp of salvation
We encounter instead, stripped of mendacious facades
Your inviting and seductive caress
Ushering us through the foreboding doors of damnation
In which just perhaps, we may finally console with peace
Oh how ironic to ponder! The sardonic roles
Of the hands or heaven and those of hell
As they reach to capture the plebians of our realm
For the hellish hand ascends in an almost heavenly path toward our throats,
While angelic grasps descend in morbid tranquility on a trajectory to perdition
But alas! No matter how one fantasizes the workings of these two clairvoyant realms,
There is no escaping our direction of demise
So come! Fear not dawdle!
Take us, doing swiftly so before the mere realization of our wrongs
Suffocate and forsake us the last breath of our lungs
Grant this mercy, dark saviors from below
And with open arms we shall soon meet your warm embrace.
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So this poem essentially puts a puritanisitc twist to envisioning our future. The writing relfects on a world destroyed by environmental exploitation, political turmoil, and human disunity, all paths we are traveling precariously on today. This poem provides one supposed glimpse of the future, urging us to consider whether this is the future we await... and moreover, warns us to reconsider our actions to better secure the future.