December the Twenty First

Now the last chime is past, this day, December the 21st is here
The world awaits the Mayan predictions, now we fear their seers

How many are waiting around like rabbits caught in the lights
Fearing to move from where they are, to disappear from sight

What's in your last thoughts before you are taken out
Mocking this day of reckoning, now you challenge it's doubt
 
They say your life flashes before you the moment before you die
To the wall you look forever, your family photo's, now come the cries
 
Your favourite song you hear today you will never hear again
Whilst one drifts into no where's abyss, listening will be in vain
 
Recalling past moments, past memories, now distant to us all
As we dared to ignore their calendar, humanity is now in fall

Me, well I just stare out the window, to await this marvel of time
Never fearing what's about to happen, maybe we've undermined

Hours of this day now pass, the media in ignorant dismiss
Ridiculing the seers of the Mayan, assuming the worlds still in bliss

As I turn to view the screen, footage from the Shuttle is shown
The Mariana Trench has risen, massive displacement of water shown

Waves of gigantic proportions are rising to thousands of feet
To many shores the Shuttle will capture, so many countries it will greet

The movement of her plates, are rupturing along their paths
Volcanoes in Indonesia are spewing out mountains of ash

The lowlands like Bangladesh are imploding onto chasms so deep
Borders that we knew existed are now in cataclysmic sweep

The height of Everest is falling, as K2 crashes to the ground
Deafening is her voice, as her catastrophe's in plenty abound

All aboard the Shuttle, on this 21st of December day
Witness the Mayan seers, whilst we scoffed, their words did say






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Date: 9/20/2011 4:50:00 PM
Scary piece, James - I'd better give everyone their xmas presents early this year, just in case... Thanks for your comments on my 'congrats' blog - and many congrats on all your wins. You were in the navy then? Yes, Plymouth is still a naval port
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Date: 9/18/2011 10:35:00 PM
James, I bet you read Nostradamus too. :) Fun imaginative write....... Never fear! God is near! His time is all I ever worry about. Zap me outta this rotting world, Lord. ASAP! Great comments on Chris' blog re: Comm. Points. Couldn't agree with you more. Gwendolen
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Date: 9/16/2011 5:10:00 PM
lets wait till them dear...i believe i would see pass December 21st...but a beautiful poem all together
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Date: 9/18/2011 6:45:00 PM
Earthquake in Nepal, close to the region where K2 is!
Date: 9/16/2011 3:19:00 PM
Wonderful fantasy write...I don't scoff at predictions, I simply ingnore those of man..God has made it perfectly clear when mankind will see their end, the birth pains have begun...your friend old Jack
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