#Poetry #Poem
GONE IN SECONDS!
by Bill Kochman
12-14-2025
Oh friend, you’ve just got to love MAD,
I’m not talkin’ ’bout the old magazine,
I mean “Mutually Assured Destruction”,
Where there is no one left to be seen.
Oh yeah, everyone gone in mere seconds,
As a bright cloud rises in the skies,
All those pols kept talkin’ ’bout peace,
But it was all just their deceptive lies.
They all had smiles etched on their faces,
As they kept speaking to the other side,
But in their hearts they prepared for war,
Yeah, those jerks just deceived and lied.
Sure, “Peace, peace!” they kept on saying,
There’s no need for us to have any fears,
Yet everything is now so amazingly bright,
And then that great heat wave hits my ears.
I didn’t even have seconds to really think,
Nor was there any time to register the pain,
As strange gray flakes fall from the skies,
I’ve become a part of the radioactive rain.
Billions of other folks are all just like me,
One minute we were here and then we were not,
While the elites hide down in their bunkers,
I truly hope that in Hell they will all rot.
None of those who died ever asked for this,
We simply wanted to live our lives in peace,
But constant greed and hunger for more power,
Meant that humanity’s wars would never cease.
Then finally the fools pushed the darn button,
Everyone everywhere must’ve seen a huge flash,
Now we gently and slowly settle to the ground,
We are just a nondescriptive part of the ash.
