After After After

The vessel had travelled through space for so long Two armageddons had come and had gone Nuclear warfare had first come to pass The asteroid followed and kicked the Earth’s ass Each was foreseen and the ruling machine Built a craft for an escape quick and clean Leaders and medics and scholars selected Plain simple folk, if they tried, were ejected Each man and woman aboard had a bed And tubes in their torso and probes in their head They slept like the dead with their vitals held steady On a circular trip until Earth was deemed ready One thousand years passed and they started to wake The ship’s console lit and engaged the main brake The President of the U.S. watched the screen The leader of Russia seemed equally keen So now it was time to rebuild a new Earth A chance to give this ravaged world a new birth The leaders of nations that once were enraged Chose men to converse and be fully engaged * At this point I ask if I may interject It would be quite easy to be circumspect In all of man’s history there’s been no chance To get warring leaders to dance the same dance * So man has the power to build Earth again It’s there to be grasped by significant men One said It’s great, really great, but, fake news One had a syringe…he was ready to use