The Beauty I Once Knew

The mushroom cloud was so tall

I just couldn’t comprehend it all

Took a drive by the empty burning mall

Then from my messiah I got a call,

He said he’d warned me about the fall,

Nowhere left for the kids to play ball

Thought I’d at least survive for the long haul

You can’t walk until you crawl.

A flaming guillotine across the sky

900 mile winds no need to wonder why

My house torched in the blink of an eye

It’s happening in slow motion as I utter a sigh,

Those aren’t mannequins burning like match sticks

Spontaneous combustion with just one click

God I wish all this was just a trick

My stomach’s a little queasy now feeling sick,

The very finger of God some might say

But this aint no tornado on a stormy day

Wish I had someone to die with but you wouldn’t stay

The ash is falling down turning everything gray,

Its visions like this that might delay

The insanity of mankind seeking to enter the fray

Man’s epitaph will read, “One day sanity went astray.”

Did it all happen because I forgot to pray?

A fire in the sky that could have been a UFO or two

Instead only out of control hostility grew

We accept self-evident facts as being true

The green grass and the beauty I once knew.