Only Ghosts

Clowns and despots with their power games

Let the storm clouds gather with their noxious reigns

Demented posturing as they sabre rattle

They stand their ground, all set for battle

A call for calm, but the wind just whistles

As they prep and aim their ballistic missiles

They hide behind their vicious vitriol and MAD men's boasts

But from post-apocalyptic ashes there're only ghosts

It's our last mistake, the end is nigh, but we're in too deep

The shepherds lost, we're the devils flocks and we're led like sheep

So lock and load and come outside from that darkened corner

For the fuse is lit and soon the world will become a whole lot warmer

Only ghosts, as all those gods abate................

Need not fear our last mistake..........................

Left to roam in perdition's fields of fire..............

Yesterday's tomorrow was a MAD desire.........

Gone in the flash of nuclear fission...................

Hideous the act of insanity's vision...................

Only ghosts, as gods will die with men.............

Slake in the fallout, without need to fend..........

The wondering souls of the impenetrable pall..

Silently drifting through a wasteland sprawl.....

It was the final act, as the MAD men's sanities failed

And so it finally came to pass when the sirens wailed

The end was seen by the sagacious and the old world prophets

As hellfire flew with nuclear missiles and chemical rockets

There're no tears to cry, for there're no eyes to moisten

The broiling sky is toxic and the billowing smog is poison

From the shattered mountains to the corroded coasts

There's nothing left crawling, there're only ghosts

Clowns and despots with their power games

Left naught behind, but a world in flames

Gone in the flash of nuclear fission

Hideous the act of insanity's vision