Letter To The Chief Poem by Brian Johnson Poems

Letter to the chief

I'm putting pen to paper in the customary way
To tell you that my patience has expired
I'd hoped for better things from you and I am bound to say
That I feel a full inquiry's required

I'm presuming that your aim was to create the perfect world
With a plan for Shangri-La or Paradise
And I know this kind of venture often takes a little time
But you'd think four billion years would just suffice

And when I look around me at the current state of play
I'm less than overwhelmed with what I see
Your hopes that gene mutation would eliminate all flaws
Appears to have been pure hyperbole

From the tiny retrovirus to the rare colossal squid
Not a perfect living creature's to be found
Out of seven million species that's a pretty poor result
So perhaps the methodology's unsound

It's obvious that strategy is not you your special suit
So then let's address the fundamental questions
Has overthinking dogged the project from the very start?
If you agree, then let me make a few suggestions

Lets start again and wipe out every creature in the world
Not with another ice age or "big rain"
For these things take too long and to tarry would be wrong
So just do that massive comet thing again

A quick heads up on the timing would enable me to hide
Underground until the dust had disappeared
Then together we could make a better fist of it this time
For to get it wrong again would be just weird

We'd construct the ideal couple in the tried and tested way
Only much improved on what you did before
For if problems needed vetting, we'd revert to factory setting
With a little belly button marked restore

Then we'd cut out all the nasty stuff you gave us last time 'round
Illness, pain, disease and death are such a bind
Lets replace them with pure bliss, an euphoric genesis
Endless happiness for all of humankind

I acknowledge that we'd have to tie up several odds and ends
Before we could embark upon my thesis
Such as whether we should share our world or keep it to ourselves
'cause we'd really have no need for other species

So I'm looking forward to a swift reply if you'd be kind
For things are fast becoming out of hand
And the quicker we abort it, then the sooner we can sort it
I feel sure that you will fully understand