The day the earth crumble

[bigorangedan]

I was there that day.
The day the earth crumbled.
I watched as it was bathed in flame,
as all around me was burned into black fine ash.
The seas boiled and turned to steam and rivers of blood filled the streets.
And I was there.

I watched as life
that had stood for a thousand years
came tumbling down in a thunderous crash.
I was there.

I heard the sharp report of the stone crack,
as our sweet mother crumbled under the weight of her own children.
I watched as her blood did rise up
to drown those she had harbored safely for so many years.
I was there.

Yet through the smoke,
the ash,
the flame,
I could see...
beauty.

In this destruction
the flickering tongues of flame
did cast light upon the world
and gave it a a marvelous glow,
a halo for our dying mother.

The screams of agony
echoed off the growing emptiness
like a horn trumpeting the sound
of her final victory.

The smoke swirled
danced
and twirled above me
in a gently ballet of doom.

Yes,
I was there the day the earth crumbled...

..and I cannot say that it was not good.

[thorn]

If this little world tonight
Suddenly should fall through space
In a hissing headlong flight
Shrivelling from off its face
In an instant every trace
Of the little crawling things
Ants, philosphers and lice
Cattle, cockroaches and kings
Beggars, millionares and mice
Men and maggots all as one
As it falls into the sun
Who can say but at the same
Instant from some planet far
A child may watch us and exclaim
"See the pretty shooting star!"
~unknown