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[sid] => 70226
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[aid] => mick
[title] => THE ULTIMATUM
[time] => 2004-11-05 02:21:05
[hometext] => This tries to explain my contempt for humanity, but not directly, but by telling a story that happens to have some poem like qualities. It is dark and humorous, with a Sci-Fi feel.
[bodytext] => A bright light from the sky From another world From the depths of space From the edge of the universe It traveled far to find itself here A diplomat of alien origin A representative from an ancient civilization Sent here to deliver an ultimatum A voice of clarity A voice of reason Listen closely You cannot escape its purpose here Stop what you are doing And look in its direction What it wants applies to us all Pay attention for these are its terms Put an end to your war Put an end to your hate Put an end to your sin Put an end to your Geo-centric religions Put an end to your greed Put an end to your ignorance Put an end to your perversion And put an end to your waste and mass consumption Do this and we shall let you live Do not and you shall parish And those were its words From the bright light in the sky From another world From the depths of space From the edge of the universe It traveled far to find itself here Sent here to deliver an ultimatum The diplomat of alien origin Smiled with reasonable expectation Hoping to inspire peace Hoping to inspire morality Unfortunately it could only be done through fear But there was no other way Humanity was just too primitive To understand in any other terms The diplomat was sure that humanity would cooperate He was sure that humanity would unify as one He was sure that humanity would see the justness in his request And he was sure that humanity would sacrifice their immoral behavior In order to live But to his surprise, Humanity only scoffed at his proposal And humanity continued on its spree of self- gratification As they ignored the light that had traveled so far The diplomat was too stunned to move "Was there no logic here?" he thought But there was nothing left for him to do The light from the sky Once white of purity Became black with great energy And a force as had never been seen Erupted forth upon humanity And the last thought of every person on earth As they saw the fire ball of death Coming down to extinguish them Was not of forgiveness or of salvation But the single thought that was persistent In the minds of all humanity Was of selfishness and not of generosity "Damn!", they all thought, "Good thing I got in that one last screw And just barely in time too." [comments] => 2 [counter] => 292 [topic] => 13 [informant] => Onslaught [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )
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