Spotlight
(c) Arike van de Water 2007-2009
End of time
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The scifi of religion filled
- With brilliant drums and shiny trumpets
- Finales of supernatural creatures we denied
- Throughout the entire lifetime of ratio
- Who are we kidding? We're scared
- Chattering our teeth we'll lose our place
- So we escape to a time when all will be
- Right there, God and humanity facing off,
- Right?
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The bitter man of middle-age breaking out
- Of his suburban illusion, the image he hates
- As much as the leftist next door, but
- We'd rather not speak of the mistakes we made
- So he will be perfectly redeemed first
- Out of the wet dreams and into the frying pan
- Out of the splendid career and into the family man
- Guns, terrorists and antichrist included
- Coming, soon, to America
- Right?
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The premise old as Dante when he was
- In the middle of our life and determined
- The circles we would travel out the other side
- From hell to God in terza rima
- Gorgeous women as doe-eyed
- As any the Quran mentioned in paradise
- Or was that a winking grape I saw?
- We know in the end the truth will prove us
- Right?
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None may know, so we tell a story
- Passing by the time we might have spent
- Right here.
