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BRACE FOR IMPACT

All hands brace for impact! This is the final play, the final act!

Each do his part, lest we all be torn apart!

 

No one dare slip!

Together we save our ship!

Tuttut –bleep-blip

We fight on and save our ship!

Through the void laser beams clip

Together we save our ship!

Armoured plates they burn and rip

We fight on and save our ship!

 

Targets in reach! BOOM! Hull breach! Sirens wail and systems fail. Damage report! What? Torpedoes retort! Take that! And damage control! Quick, plug that hole! Quench that fire! The stakes are getting higher! The dice are cast! Shoot! Blast!

 

No one dare slip!

Together we save our ship!

Tuttut –bleep-blip

We fight on and save our ship!

Through the void laser beams clip

Together we save our ship!

Armoured plates they burn and rip

We fight on and save our ship!

 

Fire at will! And shoot to kill! Escalate, cremate, obliterate! Give’em hell, mate! No quarter, Captain’s order! All hands brace- BAAAAAM!

 

The world spins around. That was the final round. Critical damage. Nothing to salvage. All hands lost. Part of the cost.

— Professor Purple, Jun 19, 2010

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Candlewitch

Candlewitch

15 years 11 months ago

Hello Purple

I did indeed brace myself while reading your stirring poem. Edgy! Always, Cat
Z

ziggy

15 years 11 months ago

hi

hi this is different to say the least and i sort of read it with a rhythm in my head as i got into the read,a very real truth behind this but with this quick pace at which I read it seems to come across as lyric`s a song in the making or am I TOTALLY on the wrong side of the pitch lol either way a read I enjoyed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,zigs
Professor Purple

Professor Purple

15 years 11 months ago

Hi, yeah this is different.

Hi, yeah this is different. Glad you liked it. It very well could become song lyrics, but then again it might not. No piece is ever final with me. Antoine