Countdown

Countdown        1/10/2017

Minute by minute 

And hour by hour

We watch the clock

Full of dread.

Ten, nine, eight,

And seven

We wait till is passes

And hold 

All our breath. 

Anxious for an ending

In the middle of our beginning

Always waiting 

And full of fear.  

Many things happen

In the middle of the night

Both good and bad

Raw and horrific. 

Some men

Have no morals

And some men

Have no soul.

Hateful and cruel

Deceitful and shallow

Cravenly plotting

To obfuscate

And destroy. 

Adding on

But never taking away

The evil of man

Doubled minded

And dumb.

Always tearing down

But never lifting up

The cut off their own arm

Just to hurt

Who they hate.

Killing many

In fits of rage

The evil of the damned

Living and dying

In an orgy of blood.

At the end of their rope

They will destroy all they can

Increasingly desperate

Hour by hour.

Keep the faith

And pray for it to pass

The burning evil 

Writhing in its coils.