Public Service Announcement

Public Service Announcement

A Poem by Dennis Shanaberg

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.

I repeat--  I repeat--

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.

Not a test.  Not a test.

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.

I repeat--  I repeat--

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.

Not a test.  Not a test.

Please be advised.


How it will end with but a whisper.

There is weapons fire in the distance.

Smoke signals death on the horizon.

It could all go up in an instant.


We are tearing ourselves apart.

This is how it falls apart...


Apathy

With no sensitivity.

Society--

It’s gone.

Monotony

With our mediocrity.

Humanity--

We’re done.


A public service announcement to those still alive--

Who still believe that human beings can possibly thrive--

That we are something more than instruments of destruction--

That we can take a different nonfatal direction.


There’s more to living than ending in heaven or Hell.

Living for now and the future would do us very well.

Society is made at the hands of us, so it is within our hands

To stop the bomb, the ceaseless death and burning if we take a stand.


The bombs are ‘bout to explode.

Not a test.  Not a test.

The rockets have been shot off.

I repeat-- I repeat--

No where left for us to go.

Not a test.  Not a test.

Now, there is no stopping.

I repeat, this is not a test.

© 2012 Dennis Shanaberg


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wow. This is really amazing! I'm kinda speechless...

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Dennis Shanaberg
Dennis Shanaberg

Mentor, OH



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