Final Times Poem by David Lewis Paget

The rain came down in a torrent, while
The rest of the world had slept,
The mud it churned was abhorrent,
It was as if the planet wept.
They said we'd come to the final times
That the earth could take no more,
For people raged like a virus
Rotting the planet down to the core.

They said it's time that we left the place
That we found a pristine home,
It's sitting, somewhere out there in space
If we had the ship to roam.
But we're tied forever to walk the earth
And to share in its demise,
Or stop polluting, and rape, and looting
The place we live our lives.

For God is not going to save us now
Since he gave us all free will,
He won't be along to pick it up
The rubbish that we spill,
His temper's seen in the thunderheads
And the lightning in a storm,
The earthquake under our feet of clay
So we'll wish we'd not been born.

The final times have been coming since
The ancient days of Tyre,
And we, like them will be running from
Destruction, and from fire,
It's much too late to pontificate
On the things that should be done,
Before the planet's a wasted mass
On its journey around the sun.

1 July 2017