Most Dangerous Call Ever Made
I’ve recited this a trillion times
now I utter one single word,
but in code,
Not through amnesia or illness of any kind
Moreover because I have become
part demigod and part devil,
Nothing can be more dangerous than a two sided,
duplicitous variance, sharing one soul,
Each equal in every way,
yet simultaneously opposite,
Sugar salt and everything in between,
Poisonous to the whole all humanity,
yet compulsory to our very existence,
Pen mightier than the sword, impales upon nothingness
for utterances are omnipotent, as a force of nature
My one encoded word, now incinerates our entire planet
Dear god forgive me, I’ve launched all the nukes.
Stand down peace is restored!
came one second before impact,
Tried and found not guilty,
I’m exonerated of genocide,
a point of law is said inadmissible,
My responsibility was too enormous,
hence deemed a bad call, preemptive,
The prosecution appeals, I plead guilty,
Sleep deprivation has altered my opinion,
For good behavior, I’m to be shot in the morning,
I’ve talked my way into modernity’s annihilation,
Now arrives reason alongside insanity,
It is better to die,
From the tips of a bifurcated tongue,
What is heaven
What is hell
I am both.
By David Kavanagh.
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