Chanting

The Million Names of God being chanted, One by one the stars slowly flickered out, The darkest of the darkest dark Curtainlike spread slowly about. As though frozen in a stasis The world carried on as before But the time of day and night Wasn't to exist on Earth anymore And the people collapsed in chaos And the times of the killing began And the darkness continued until The extinction of the species man. And all other creatures slept, The only thing permitted to do In the darkness a time of cleansing And the planet began to bloom anew. A slow lifting of that darkness started As the stars flickered back alight Another million names were chosen and Their began chanting slowly ended night..