Atom Smasher

Lab coats, clipboards, take notes

It’s an important day in Geneva

Deep underground, look what we’ve found

the path to Greater Knowledge

Hurrying, scurrying, finger-nail biting

Our life’s work complete, isn’t this exciting

Switch on the machine, and see what we find

Amongst the cranes, tubes and magnets

Is something Divine

The hum of the systems, the whizzing and whooshing

We’d crank it up fully but that would be pushing

So we wait, till the particles, the atoms collide

in such beautiful colours, many tears leave the eye

We’re nearly there, to the Final Frontier

and we don’t even have to step a foot outside here

If there’s a God he’d be nervous. His mysteries gone

Who knows what else we’ll find while it’s on?

Extra dimensions? Time travel too?

This is indeed exciting, we’re learning reality anew!

They all say it’s dangerous, that the planet may dissapear

But hey, that’s nature…and science, my dear

Summer, 2009

 

The Summer of 2009,

John McCain won, it’s Battle Time

China breaks its quiet, Japan turns Right

Russian ships get the Cuban green-light

 

Americans panic! Reds near our shores!

Surely one shot would mean total war

The Dow plunging, the Dollar weak

The over-stretched Yanks are in knee-deep!

 

Iran, Syria amassing as one

Israel watches, loading her gun

North Korea’s been quiet for months

Secretly, troops move to the front

 

Afghanistan struggles, a Taliban surge

The newspapers scream “Will we never learn?”

Iraq’s al-Sadr militia checkmates the King

All falls down, the analysts sing

 

Europe’s not what it used to be

One could mistake it for 1914

The Balkans unstable, a new carved-up map

The Caucuses ripe for an East-West clash

 

France evokes De Gaulle, Italy, Ill Duce

These once peaceful nations armed to the tooth

For it is the same old story, the Provocateurs of late?

Russia, China and the U.S.A

 

Now McCain makes a stand, Putin makes his too

Jintao of China remains quiet and aloof

Will the trigger be Korea, Ukraine or Iran?

Or will it be from left-field, from Germany or Japan?

 

The world is waiting anxiously, trying to forget

that history repeats time and time again,

Let us hope and pray that we step back from the brink

because the Clash of the Titans is nearer than we think