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

[MomzillaNC]

Is there anything more threatening than scientific superiority -- who has more capacity to wipe out the planet? I remember reading all those "what if" scenarios when they were getting ready to fire up the Hadron Collider. I even read a book written around the theme (Thrice In Time). You've given us another very gripping look at those scenarios.