Watch Them All Die On Television

Watch Them All Die On Television
© Surazeus
2005 11 07

A thousand people drown in fast floods 
and another thousand work in offices 
and another thousand whirl in tornadoes 
and another thousand drive cargo trucks 
and another thousand patrol hot streets 
of desert towns battling invisible ghosts 
who shoot at them with bullets of hate 
and another thousand work in car factories 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Tsunami waves from ocean earthquake 
drown two hundred seventy thousand souls 
and earthquake in high mountains shake 
giant rocks that crush school children 
killing eighty thousand dreaming souls 
and car bombs kill ten thousand sad souls 
struggling to survive in violent war zone 
and men rape and murder ten thousand girls 
because they cannot control holy goddess 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Two thousand soldiers die in Oil War 
and fifty thousand citizens of desert land 
die from bombs and bullets and cars 
that explode when men seeking virgins 
in heaven of their bleak imagination 
plow into markets and lines of unemployed 
and ten thousand men wounded in Oil War 
hobble and blink in hospital of grim despair 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Hitler killed ten million people in war 
and Stalin killed fifty million people 
and Truman killed a million people 
with atomic bombs on island of Japan 
and Pol Pot killed a million people 
and Mao Tse Tung killed a million people 
and greedy Saul killed his thousands 
then David killed tens of thousands 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Nebuchadenezzar killed a million people 
and Ramses killed half a million people 
and Salmaneser killed a million people 
and Alexander killed two million people 
and Genghis Khan killed three million 
and Salahadin killed a million people 
and Charlemagne killed two million people 
and Napoleon killed three million people 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Millions of people died of bubonic plague 
and millions of people died from influenza 
and millions of people died from smallpox 
and polio crippled or killed millions more 
and cholera destroyed lives of millions 
and millions of people died of starvation 
and millions more died of broken hearts 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Millions of people were shot by arrows 
and millions were blasted dead by bullets 
and millions were tortured and executed 
and millions were burned in fires of fear 
and millions wasted from tobacco or coke 
and millions raped and stabbed and shot 
and millions were beaten and crucified 
and millions were killed in car accidents 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Countless millions of people in history 
were murdered by animals or people 
and millions more died from diseases 
and natural disasters killed millions more 
souls with perceiving eyes that dream 
alive our world in bright conscious minds 
that were swallowed by blackness of death 
and eliminated from flow of dream time 
soul flames that sizzled and sparked 
an hour of life before being extinguished 
while I watch them all die on television. 

What were their names I want to know 
and I want to write stories of their lives 
in Book of Life and Death to record 
every woman and man who ever lived 
whether for a brief hour of gasping cries 
or a long century of acting out desires 
doing constructive or destructive acts 
no matter if they accomplished great things 
or stumbled confused through weird maze 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Some believe your souls are now animals 
and others believe you all burn in hell 
or you float helpless in gray fog of limbo 
or you strum harps on clouds of heaven 
or you vibrate in light circle of nirvana 
and others believe you are shining ghosts 
who flutter about on sparkling rays of rain 
muttering as your eyes glow with dream 
and others believe your bodies rot to dirt 
after your souls dissipate into nothing 
while I watch you all die on television. 

Will you exist again in faces of children 
born from those who managed to give birth 
before they were killed or died of old age 
or will you all be woven into fabric of light 
that vibrates hot with eternal spirit of life 
within molecules in web of our genetic eyes 
to rise for brief flash of sudden existence 
so we may sing with immortal voice of God 
before we all die leaving children behind 
for our dreaming as one is Mind of Allah 
while I watch you all born on television.