Saturday, March 15, 2008

Terrible Times -- a Kvad Revisted...

I recently uncovered, in 3rd level footnotes to the Absolute Truth, 21st Edition, a fourth verse to the kvad, "Terrible Times" by the unknown poet of the Third Galaxy I posted earlier:

All we need right now is time,
time to take the steps we should
and train ourselves for what will come.
And what will come are the Terrible Times
which will test our human qualities.
But there is no time for, as it always has:
the time is now!


Indeed, the monster seems to have had no shame!

Although he once boasted of having escaped active service in the War Against the Dominoes. Which is no shame in itself, but later, as Supreme Hole, he sent thousands to die in Farawastan and Wudda-Wreck and then had the gall to tell soldiers that he wished he was younger and not "otherwise engaged", because he figured it would be cool to go out and fight for democracy in the mud, blood and flies. Well, no he didn't quite say that -- mud, blood and flies weren't quite his rambo illusion.

Whatever, here is the kvad as it now stands -- if I can find more stanzas, I will post them.

Here is the Terrible Times kvad as it now stands:

Their lack of common decency,
was only matched by their hypocrisy.
They pretended to spread democracy
by dispensing justice from the barrel of a gun.
At the end of the day, the goal of their game
was to conquer the world or bring it down in flames.

It was said, "It's about the oil and other stuff!"
That was true, but not quite true enough...
It was about all things that could be abused,
up to and including human lives.
Their genes were seen as a hill of beans;
to be counted and added to the bottom line.

It was a time, a Terrible Time,
when wicked works were wrought by all.
By all except the few who saw
and recognized the nature of the beast.
The beast which ripped the womb of birth
and desecrated the Mother, Earth.

All we need right now is time,
time to take the steps we should
and train ourselves for what will come.
And what will come are the Terrible Times
which will test our human qualities.
But there is no time for, as it always has:
the time is now!

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