Array ( [sid] => 150357 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => SATAN'S CENTURY [time] => 2009-06-01 12:13:03 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Pivotal year, 1914,
The likes of which we had never seen,
Slaughter and mayhem on the World scene -
A colossal jolt to human kind.

Apocalyptic page unfurled
Played out as each society swirled
Into a maelstrom all lives were hurled –
Peasant or Pauper, King or Queen confined.

The flames of war died as ashes remained,
Man was crippled, bludgeoned, bloodstained,
It seemed all life from him had drained -
His essence, his psyche undermined.

Empires were erased, new countries born,
Peace bloomed like a flower on a spring morn
As hope rose in hearts terribly torn –
Were people realistic, or just blind?

Satan made sure the peace wouldn’t last
As he stirred up trouble as in the past;
Sure enough, the die was cast -
All heeded the dictates of his twisted mind.

Another World War ravaged the Earth,
Lives were counted of little worth
As barbaric acts Liberators did unearth -
Under Nazi boots Jews they did grind.

More heinous weapons were put to use,
So as to stop the brutal abuse
Japan was warned with an atomic noose –
The treaty was duly signed.

The fifties gave us ‘rock and roll’,
The ‘swinging sixties’, Beatles “Rubber soul”,
And psychedelic seventies dress so droll -
Music and drugs were intertwined.

As the century came to a close
Terrorism grew and gained more foes,
Technology only added to our woes -
Innocents to graveyards were consigned.

Beliefs are selected like ‘pick-and-mix’,
People choose what gives a quick ‘fix’,
The Prince of Darkness is up to his tricks -
Moral compasses become misaligned.

Families fractured, all looks grim,
Ethics discarded at a whim,
Society dances on a volcanic brim –
Listen, the death-knell of Humankind?







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SATAN'S CENTURY
Date: Monday, 1st June 2009 @ 12:13:03 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: windowguy
Pivotal year, 1914,
The likes of which we had never seen,
Slaughter and mayhem on the World scene -
A colossal jolt to human kind.

Apocalyptic page unfurled
Played out as each society swirled
Into a maelstrom all lives were hurled –
Peasant or Pauper, King or Queen confined.

The flames of war died as ashes remained,
Man was crippled, bludgeoned, bloodstained,
It seemed all life from him had drained -
His essence, his psyche undermined.

Empires were erased, new countries born,
Peace bloomed like a flower on a spring morn
As hope rose in hearts terribly torn –
Were people realistic, or just blind?

Satan made sure the peace wouldn’t last
As he stirred up trouble as in the past;
Sure enough, the die was cast -
All heeded the dictates of his twisted mind.

Another World War ravaged the Earth,
Lives were counted of little worth
As barbaric acts Liberators did unearth -
Under Nazi boots Jews they did grind.

More heinous weapons were put to use,
So as to stop the brutal abuse
Japan was warned with an atomic noose –
The treaty was duly signed.

The fifties gave us ‘rock and roll’,
The ‘swinging sixties’, Beatles “Rubber soul”,
And psychedelic seventies dress so droll -
Music and drugs were intertwined.

As the century came to a close
Terrorism grew and gained more foes,
Technology only added to our woes -
Innocents to graveyards were consigned.

Beliefs are selected like ‘pick-and-mix’,
People choose what gives a quick ‘fix’,
The Prince of Darkness is up to his tricks -
Moral compasses become misaligned.

Families fractured, all looks grim,
Ethics discarded at a whim,
Society dances on a volcanic brim –
Listen, the death-knell of Humankind?









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