Something to Fear
This song combines the famous "I am become Death" speech by J Robert Oppenheimer with the burning agony of being consumed by nuclear fire.
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“A few people laughed,
a few people cried.
Most people were silent.”
Asleep beneath the weeping breeze,
poison befouls the air we breathe.
Fetid and forlorn, on fire we weep,
infected, forgotten, in silence we sleep.
“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture,
the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince
that he should do his duty”
But one soul stirs now still wide awake,
his soul far too heavy for slumber to take.
In his woe
he falls
to his knees and cries
Alone
he calls
into the flames as he withers
Bathed in light
Flesh slides from trembling bones
In strips, it slides
from off his sides
The light eats
him
up whole.
“and, to impress him,
takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
As the cinders fall and blind your eyes
and winter dawns as daylight dies
don’t waste your last breath on a prayer.
The gods have gone.
The night is long
and cold.
The world anew is not for you
but it’s one we built together
The world of old has fallen cold
and there it stays forever.
By god did we christen her
and by god did we lament
when we launched the missiles, kissing her
and we saw the horizon bend.
When we watched the oceans boil,
when we heard our children wail,
when the cities fell like wheat,
‘fore our reaper and we saw
that God had failed...
...We became, in that moment
that shining, incandescent moment
everything we never knew we feared.
© Steven Mailer 2020
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