Hadron Hell!

Is it God out there in the woods tonight

Or some weird, unhallowed troll,

Uprooting trees in the scorching breeze

With a dread that shreds my soul,

The sky is glowering red like blood

For a warning, in advance,

Since ever the Hadron Collider fired

And swallowed half of France.

 

A planet, black as a pit of tar

Has appeared just up on high,

Has popped up out of some x-ray realm

And filled up half the sky,

The earth is teetering on the edge

Of a black hole, forged in space,

And threatening us with extinction,

What’s left of the human race.

 

It was all for the sake of science, so

They told us, overall,

To add to their fount of knowledge like

The new God Particle,

Though why they wanted to raise it when

There is no recompense,

As it ravages half of the planet,

What did they use for common sense?

 

There’s a hole down deep in the ocean that

Is swallowing half the sea,

The earth it quakes, and volcanoes

Are erupting frequently,

While we lie low in our cottage home

To the growling in the woods,

From some atavistic animal

Unwrapped from its hellish shrouds.

 

The ones who unleashed this savage beast

Have all been swallowed whole,

Are floating in some dimension in

Their Hadron hidey-hole,

We should have had them arrested long

Before they hatched their plot,

Lined them up with their arrogance,

Their science, and had them shot!

 

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[Devanshu Rajput]

Like money technology is a good servant but a bad master. We are not operating science but science is operating us. If we do not become aware of deadly repercussions, then the D-Day of our earth is in offing!

A great piece of write over the state of denial of human beings.

Devanshu

[Valentine]

You hit the nail on the head with this one. The thing is, which country is doing the most damage to the earth, and what will they profit if all that they end up with is nothing. I see you have made readers think on this write. Life gets scary sometimes, doesn't it? kathie

[Marie]

Do you really think the scientists are destroying earth? Perhaps.

[R Smith]

they do as they please i guess and to hell with the consequences, will we disappear into a man made hole in space or sink beneath the seas, your poem lights a way toward this potential scientific disaster David and i think we may see it come home to roost any time now :)

[Droll Prole]

Apocalyptic! God would be all like " you just did what I said you would do" to the scientists of the world, lol great poem. I really hope that our damned curiosity doesn't cause this one day.

[Cambion]

Great poem! Hopefully what I heard is true, that an artificial singularity would just get bullied around by tiny amount of mass and wink out. People tend to have a strange concept of the word 'infinity'. I don't live in fear of Science's bluster, personally. Some might call me a fool, but it's not so bad a thing to be called if you're free from fear. Thanks for another fun read, sir.

[ANTO]

I had Vincent Price rolling this one with his distinctive vowel-growl and it was sublime David - as always mate. I believe the are creating minute black holes in labs (or attempting to) which only last for a miniscule amount of time but who knows ?? Perhaps its a premonition poem my talented friend.
Love it - love it - love it

[Charles Stewart]

I love your poem!