Five Minutes Till Midnight

Two minutes closer to the midnight hour They say the Doomsday clock has moved, And the swiftly moving second hand is ticking Like it has nothing left to lose. Nuclear proliferation is the issue at hand And it’s certainly cause for concern, When you imagine that one day soon The entire earth could burn. For five decades scientists have sought To build bigger and better bombs, They say they need them to keep us safe, This reasoning seems convoluted and wrong. But I’m afraid it’s too late to complain about it now As there are so many nukes that it makes me gasp, I just pray to God that in the morning when I wake It’s the sun that I see, and not a nuclear blast.