Death of the Nations

By Armond Joy Blackwater

The death of the nations

Came finally

After a long and arduous journey

Many lives were wasted

Along the way

Many souls were incinerated

In defense of flags

In defense of an ideal

That was not worthy

Of a second of consideration

In support of altruistic self-sacrifice

A pitiable squandering of spirit and soul

The death didn't come easy

The Nations would not die easily

For without the Nations

The Leaders

Would have nothing to lead

Nothing to lead!

Nobody to subjugate!

Power

Would slip from their hands

And the Leaders would find death

As their only recourse

The Leaders

Who steered the ark of mankind

On a devastating path

Away from true spirituality

Away from self-actualisation

Away from self-awareness

Away from self-realisation

Disconnecting all

From the Oceans

From the Mountains

From the Forests

From the Sky

From the Stars

From the Moon

From the Earth

From the Galaxy

And the Universe

In pursuit of Things

The Leaders had said,

"Things will make you happy

You must have Things to be happy

You can have enough things to be happy

Happiness?

Denied!

You don't have all of the Things

Thus, happiness cannot be yours

Happiness can never be yours

But you must try

You must achieve

You must sacrifice yourself

For the Things

Of all

Particularly,

Things for the Leaders

The wise and knowledgeable Leaders.

For without the Leaders

You are nothing.

You cannot survive.

You cannot make it on your own.

You are too frail and feeble a creature

To make it on your own

You need the Leaders

You need the Nations

Bow down to the Leaders

The Leaders are great

The Leaders are your only chance

For survival

Pledge allegiance

To the Nations

And the Leaders

Will allow you to survive

The Leaders

Will allow you to breathe

The Leaders

Will give you Things

Great Things

Things that will make you happy

Briefly

The Leaders require that

Many of you must make

The ultimate sacrifice

You must lay down your life

To promote the Nations

To promote the Leaders

Even though

The Leaders are Wise

And Knowledgeable,

The Leaders can find

No peaceful resolution

To the conflict

Over the Things

Things that will make you happy

Things that you must want

Things that you must crave

Things that you must possess

To be happy,

Briefly

It is the Price

The Price of Things

Die

So that the Leaders may have Things

So that the Leaders may have Power

You cannot survive without the Leaders

Or the Things

"Look not inside yourself

It's too scary in there

It's scary inside of you

You musn't go there

Open not

The Doors to your soul

Seek not

The Light within

The Light is Evil

The Light knows not

Of Things

The Light cares not

For Things

The Light is Evil"

The Leaders feared the Light

Lightness could eliminate

Dependence on the Leaders

Dependence on the Nations

Lightness would illuminate

The Spirit within

Lightness was Evil

The Death of the Nations

Began innocently enough

With the burst of technology

In the waning days of the Century

At first, the Leaders loved the new technology

Many new Things were generated by the new technology

Though they were Wise and knowledgeable

The Leaders failed to perceive

The danger to Nations and Power

That the new technology brought

They failed to recognise

The dangers of allowing

The drones of the Nations

To communicate across the boundaries of Nations

Soon the drones realised

That the drones of other Nations

Were much like themselves

That they were not evil empires

But simply lost souls

Blindly following the Leaders

As lemmings

Toward the chasm

Drones began to question the validity

Of the teachings of the Leaders

Of the quest for Things

At the sacrifice of their souls

And their lives

Music began to take over as the universal language

That bound all drones

To their creator

To the Lightness within themselves

Too late, Too late

The Leaders realised the threat

To their Power

To the ideals that provided the Power

To the Things

By that time

The war was over

The Leaders had lost

The drones had already found

The Lightness within

The drones discovered

That within them

God existed

That they were the God

Of their own universe

That as God

They had the Power

To survive without the Things

Without the Leaders

Without the Nations

And then,

The drones systematically

Disassembled

Disemboweled

The Nations

The drones became One

One within themselves

One with the Oceans

One with the Mountains

One with the Forests

One with the Sky

One with the Stars

One with the Moon

One with the Earth

One with the Galaxy

One with the Universe.

That is when the Leaders died

And all mankind

Celebrated the orgy that was

The Death of the Nations.