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                                                                                                                                        The Coming Storm

                                                                                                                                        2012 . . . that’s the mysterious number
                                                                                                                                        being bandied about these days
                                                                                                                                        and what will happen this coming year
                                                                                                                                        with the coming storm
                                                                                                                                        that physicists say will ensue . . .

                                                                                                                                        The Inter-Galactic Pole Shift
                                                                                                                                        an immense extraordinary event
                                                                                                                                        that is to change life as we know it
                                                                                                                                        or so “they” say . . .

                                                                                                                                        An Agrarian Society we will once again
                                                                                                                                        become, the rumours go . . .
                                                                                                                                        there will be a ‘dark rift’ as they say;
                                                                                                                                        Mayans left relics to enlighten us, and
                                                                                                                                        they knew not what else to do but pray . . .

                                                                                                                                        So what are we to do?
                                                                                                                                        Ignore it, study it, prepare for it, what?
                                                                                                                                        Knowledge is power, the old adage goes
                                                                                                                                        but ignorance is bliss . . .

                                                                                                                                        If all the dire predictions come true
                                                                                                                                        then we are in for a great deluge, a tempest,
                                                                                                                                        a tumultuous storm
                                                                                                                                        that will rock our world, and rock the Planet
                                                                                                                                        perhaps ‘til we are no more . . .

                                                                                                                                        Fear not, good people, fear not
                                                                                                                                        for all may not be lost
                                                                                                                                        prepare for the worst yet carry on
                                                                                                                                        and treasure the Planet, for ours
                                                                                                                                        is our only one . . . and pray.

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