Panic
If you can hear this emergency broadcast,
we urge all citizens to remain in their homes
The quarantine has been breached,
and there now is panic in the streets ...
It's going down,
just like all of the holy prophets said
A man-made scourge has spread out;
and if it infects you, you're as good as dead
Patient zero was actually a lab critter,
who escaped somehow
and produced a ravenous litter
They in turned bit an unsuspecting government worker
He was the first of those now known simply as Berserkers
Now everything as gone dark,
the situation seems bleak and dire
It's not safe to go out, especially at night
You hear incessant screams everywhere,
you hear the constant gunfire
The food supply you have is starting to run low
It's just a matter of time
before you're going to have to venture outside the door
and search for some more
There's panic in the streets ...
a societal meltdown
No Messiah to stop the madness ...
civilization is burning to the ground
Once you're outside,
you have to watch out for more than just the Crazies
There's danger from friendly fire,
and even all the animals are in revolt
You're under siege everywhere,
billows of black smoke pollutes the air
No encounters thus far,
so you hot wire a fast car
You rather take your chances out in the open,
then being trapped, cowering and hoping
the government saves you and clean up their mess
There's panic in the streets ...
no return to the norm
No savior to stop the sadness ...
woe to those who will be born
There's pestilence,
there's panic
Rumors are being spread,
about a safe haven somewhere
up the eastern coast of the Atlantic
But that's not where you're going,
you're heading west to the mountains
Before you die, you're going to breathe some rare air
Go to the type of place where
the holy prophets said they met God there
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2016
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