Politicians argued in seats of honest lies, Considering paths open to halt their demise. Blue lights stopped red amidst a sharp rise in crime, But the courts were all full, they’d run out of time, On the day that the world fell apart. We aged by the year at each stroke of Big Ben, The chimes spelt disaster on the banks of the Thames. Shock waves shattered windows of office block glass, Raining down on the losers, shredded flesh as they passed, On the day that the world fell apart. Palpitating veins filled with heroin’s flood, Their mangled blind paradise in syringes of blood. Minds once perceived this coming hour of despair, But today just for once, didn’t care, On the day that the world fell apart. To mountains and hilltops the faith healers strode, Preach the victims of witnesses around our small globe. “God will protect us, the many thousands strong.” What a let down if after this they find they were wrong, On the day that the world fell apart. Silver worms lay still in the dirt and the dead, Flack jacketed soldiers devoured melting lead. Truncheons and boots battled bottles and knives, We danced filled with dread at the end of our lives, On the day that the world fell apart. Acclaimed and profounded professors worked fast, At reversing the mayhem they said wouldn’t last. Global conflict and frenzy formed a doomsday alliance, We waited, breath baited, for the end in raw silence, On the day that the world fell apart.