Crusader Will: The Big One? That’s about the size of it!

A quake survivor gets quite apocalyptic in his reactions.

A real apocalypse may come as something of an anti-climax.

Whatever way the era’s set to end,

a further quake could easily preempt all that.

You develop a constant sense of overhang;

The literal is as much on the cards as the metaphoric.

It might be a mercy, to judge by the prophecies.

As long as it’s quick. You don’t want to be trapped

underneath all that rubble, awaiting the inevitable.

Besides, I mightn’t survive the Tribulation

with my soul intact. Better to take me

in the state of grace, not as a total test-failure.

To lose a great deal of your interest

because of seismic shifts is one thing;

to lose your immortal soul

because of the reign of the Beast,

is quite another.

The new earth may be a real draw-card,

but you might have to settle for the old heaven instead,

and predecease the Last Day –

only resurrection seems to require prior crucifixion.

Oh well. you might get that with the Church,

the way it’s all shaping up.

Crusader Will

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