Echo in My Tomb! by Gerald F. Heyder
art by Ramos Fumes A look ahead |
The year is 2031. The nuclear arms race has been resurrected and is rearing its ugly head far beyond anything experienced by previous generations. This time around every nation on Earth has weapons of mass destruction and there are no allies as had been the case previously. It's every country for itself, settling differences through rockets and missiles to satisfy the politics and ideologies of those in power on both sides of the fence. A gunfight at the O.K. Corral magnified a million times. The annihilation, a holocaust, on planet Earth is in progress! The following account is but an example of what is being forced on individuals who are pawns on the chessboard of impending extinction. Read with an eye towards the possibility that prophecy is at long last being fulfilled. The command has come! It's a done deal! I must unlock fail-safe And expose launch button! It's my duty, my responsibility To push the red square blob That will send missile over sea To obliterate city containing Numerous people who will die Fried like burgers on a grill!! Men, women and children will Never know what hit them The snake that bit them With nuclear venom, O what hell War can be! They're enemy, we're told, But I feel cold Not hot with malice For palace I don't know, But it's a-goin' so Flying grim reaper Is on its way. I feel strange inside, My soul just died!!! O God how can I live With myself? I feel Like blowing my brains out I want to shout So loud my lungs rupture Releasing guilt within My very shell of existence Insisting I die By drowning in my tears! I will go insane Throughout eternity Hearing echo in my tomb, Screams screeching in my ear. Steering me into hell Where I must dwell In cursed doom— O God The echo in my tomb! He who has no remorse has Satan for a soul!—old proverb You have just read what may be a soliloquy surpassing Hamlet's mournful wail. Imagine, if you will, a barren planet that is incapable of regeneration. If you can, picture a ghost of a man with a funny little mustache raising a banner bearing the once-feared symbol of a swastika. Now picture that man grinning just prior to his release of “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!” Simply remember the admonition, “History repeats itself when lessons fail to be learned!” Enough said!
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