Is it a Prophecy?
Once there was a night,
Where a dream gave fright,
Describing the End,
Of all Life could send.
“Why send me,” I cry,
“This vision of Doom,
I’m only knee-high,
And fresh from the womb.”
To this day not sure,
If some films I saw,
Disrupted my sleep,
With false signs to keep,
Or whether it’s true,
This dream I tell you,
Warns of Things to Come,
If we all stay dumb.
This night-mirrored myth,
Your mind shall I fill,
Of a world short-lived,
Haunts me, taunts me still.
Cliffs of plunging wrath,
Rips the earth gone soft,
On heat cracks emerge,
From cities crowds surge,
Alone. Unloved. Lost.
Trapped by flame and frost,
The War-lords’ machine,
Mega-deaths they breath,
To make the world clean,
But what did they leave?
Man’s science gone mad,
Now, Nature’s turned bad,
The despair sets in,
No return from sin,
Destinies squandered,
“How?” to be pondered,
Not by Man now past,
But insects and grass.
Is it really true,
No more me or you?
23rd May 1984
"Is it a Prophecy?" by Nabil Shaban
A poem based on a dream Nabil had when he was a child in the early 1960s, of Armeggedon. He has been haunted ever since by this nightmare of the Apocalypse, wondering if the dream was a prophecy of something he would witness in his own life time - the End of the World, and over the decades watched out for the signs...seeing more and more omens that seem to confirm his greatest fears...AIDS, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, increase religious intolerance, sectarianism, return of Imperialism, increase in natural disasters, international terrorism, greater civil unrest and disorders, decline and erosion of civil liberties, human rights and democratic princilples in the West, increase in police state mentality and mechanisms, end of Humanist and socialist idealism, return of jingoism and zenophobia and bloodthirsty demands for Holy Crusades and Jihads, wars for oil, global warming, pollution, detrimental climate change, junk food and junk mass entertainment, gladitorial television, child abuse, increase in slave labour, weakening and destruction of labour unions and workers rights, rampant Capitalism, runaway greed of multinational corporations and banks, move towards oppressive world governemnt, New World Order, microchip-identity implants, growing signs of the Coming of the Antichrist, destruction of the environment, bio-diversity threatened, depletion of ozone layer, melting of the ice-caps, de-forestation, growth in endangered species and extinctions, increase in Suicide Cults, Satanism and Messianism, increase in psychic activity, growth in paranormal and supernatural signs and omens, more mass sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena and UFOs, growing evidence of super intelligent technologically advanced extraterrestrial visitations, surveillance and interference.
