I Turned A Page

Closed my shifting eyes
Opened the Book
Turned a page and I saw
The south and the middle
Still uninhabitable
Getting well done
Head deep under
Smoldering rubble and cursed fire
Turned a page and I saw
The green half
Head deep under
Getting well done
Bodies rolling over
Wall after wall of spellbound water

Closed my gifted eyes
Opened the Book
Turned a page and I saw
Your distant yesterday
The evil ensconced below
Turned a page and I saw
Your greed-filled today
The evil rampant above and the evil ensconced below
Turned a page and I saw
Your relatively close tomorrow
And there
The dreaded shadow king
On moving dirt
Fully dressed, wings spread and standing
Still
Summoning
A blackening sky full of battling ships
And all around
Echoes of redemption sounding
Turned a page and I saw
War
War
War
The rat burning
The rat drowning
The rat dying

Closed my wretched eyes
Opened the Book
Turned a page and I saw
Scenes
You can't begin to imagine
So consider this...
Your skin isn't singed
Yet
And your feet are hardly wet
Fourteen years in
The party hasn't really started
Yet

Closed my flaming eyes
Opened the Book
Turned a page and I saw
The innocent and the guilty
Sharing the bill
Retribution and destruction
Turned a page and I saw...

No haven
Anywhere
No exit from the flip side of paradise
For the wicked

Sound the alarm
Tell Jack
Tell Jill
Things rising
Things falling

Tell them we're coming

Still

JM

I turned a page

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