Saying Goodbye to Old King Nick
A 13-verse freestyle sextet poem
The Heavenly train comes in tonight.
It comes for one passenger, leaves tomorrow at 6 a.m.
It’s come for our ancient brutal King Nick.
We must make sure he’s on it.
It’s our only hope to survive and finally live free.
His time has come. Wake him up, don’t forget! 6 a.m.
Stories say it was long ago when Old King Nick fell to Earth.
He grew bitter and jealous of our God’s creation.
He devised a plan to deceive us all.
He whispered lies across all of time,
He whispered lies to you, he whispered lied to me,
Don’t you think, it’s time for his spirit to leave?
Last train home, at 6 o’clock am,
Tell him now, it’s best he go.
Say don’t let the caboose hit you in the ass.
Wake him up from his sinful sleep,
If you must, steal his sheets. Don’t let him oversleep.
Make damn sure he’s on board.
Time is time, he knows he can’t win.
The clock has ticked, his time is up!
7,000 years, who called that short?
It’s been much too long,
Since he’s seen his home.
So wish him ‘Fare Thee well’.
Get him away from this hell he created.
He must not miss this train,
This spirit who caused us nothing but pain.
All of History is his lie.
A story told to cover up the Truth.
We are divine, the spark of life exists within us all.
So, don’t forget, last train home at 6 am.
His deception must come to an end.
He screwed us all again and again.
Let the train take him far.
Let it hold him long, let it be his prison among the stars.
He has played his last trump card.
Time to go, time to leave,
No more tricks up his sleeve.
Father to us all, or so he claims,
Prophet’s say he is the Father of lies.
So, don’t forget to wave Goodbye.
Soon he will be gone, unable to deceive us.
Our old foe, by God’s word no longer may he rule,
So, no more propping up his politicians,
For far too long we’ve been his fools.
Wake up mow! Look around,
By following his lying decrees,
We nearly destroyed the planet.
Last train is shooting through the stars,
Time for us to pull the wool from our eyes,
We need to get to work, become the stewards of the Earth.
First task, clean up this unholy mess he left us.
Next, take down his minions who have perched above us.
As the train disappears, his magic is waning, his spell over us disintegrating.
His final act was to try and destroy us. He left us a planet in crisis.
Don’t let him win. Wake up and see that it’s up to us now to save us.
A grassroots movement unseen on Earth in ages.
The last train has left the station,
But we have no time for celebration,
the Earth cries out for help from beneath our feet to every nation.
Tell all your sisters, tell all your brothers. A new paradigm starts right now.
From this moment, the power is within us all.
Our old systems are broken. The brutal King is gone.
We must be responsible. We must change.
No more believing the old school lies from aging Hell’s Angels.
Be sure to tell them they missed their boss’s silent resignation.
The time is now to stand up strong, to stand up proud,
with the confidence to do what is right, knowing God is on our side.
Tell his minions, those who served Old King Nick, they have been abandoned.
7,000 years were his to deceive us, we barely have 10 to fix this mess we’re in.
Do we need to be ordered by God on High to save our lives?
King Nick’s last move was to sentence us all to death. Truly we are the ones whose time is short.
You and everyone you love were sentenced to death last night as you slept.
Let’s set aside all our petty fights. Nothing else matters now. Heed the call to save our lives.
Don’t let ignorance, inaction, denial and stubborn entitlement kill us.
Those were his ways. Show whoever is watching, if anyone, that we can overcome the one who deceived us.
You cannot call this a fantasy. There’s no fantasy here to see, only a cold and harsh reality.
There’s no time left for children’s games, the last train’s gone into the Heavens, now, who wants to live?