Watchmaker
Physics
Calculus
Uranium
And Plutonium
Every resource we can find
To make a better tomorrow
From passenger planes to fighter jets
Nuclear power to atomic bombs
From standard jeeps to giant tanks
To North Korea and Vietnam
From music players to sonic booms
Electricity to radiation
From medicines to poisons
To the opposite of creation
Inventions that cross between
Commodity and sheer destruction
Forest fires, napalm gas, and inhuman chemistry
Our arsenal of megadeath unleashed above the skies
Sacrifice of conscience to obtain more weaponry
Caught between the vultures of politics and lies
The space race
The arms race
The race to end mankind
If only I had known
I would have become a watchmaker
Copyright © Christopher Ferguson | Year Posted 2009
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