The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Humanity won't cease to be
Because of flood, famine, or disease.
No earthquake will deal the fatal blow,
And no hurricane will erode us.
Mother Nature will not play Death
And Father Time will not be the executioner.

In the end, it won't be anything out there that gets us.
No, the Bible has it right.
In that Revelation on page 1000, where
God says the Horsemen of the Apocalypse will
Come and sweep us away.

But God only got it half right. Because
There won't be 6. Or 4. Or 2.
No, there will be 3 horsemen of the end days,
Only 3 dread messengers from Hell.

But once again, Yahweh got it wrong.
It's not famine, disease and death that will
wreak havoc on humanity.
No, it's sloth, apathy, and hesitancy that will
Deal the fatal blow.

When the skies grow dark, it won't be
Any horsemen on the horizon to blame for our demise.
Let's blame Apathy.
He sits atop his sofa, with a beer and some chips.
And as the TV shifts from soap operas to the World News
He quickly loses interest. Instead, he
Quickly turns the channel.
'Who cares about all those goddamn poor fucks!'
He thinks as he guzzles down another beer.
It doesn't matter anyway.

And not too far away, just in the other room,
Sits his brother Sloth.
Sloth is on his bed, just too lazy to get up.
He has plans and dreams and hopes and ambitions,
But God if he won't ever achieve them.
Because he'd much prefer his white walled house
In the decaying suburbs to anything more
Real. Yes, he's ambitious. Ambitious and hopeless.

Atop the roof of that same house sits the oldest of
The three horsemen. Hesitancy looks
Down from the roof, unable to take the leap.
'Take my life,' he thinks, as he approaches the ledge,
'Or just continue on this road of misery?'
From atop the roof, he could lose himself,
Leap into the unknown and find true life.
But he's too fucking scared of what might come after
The Fall.

So there you have it. The end is near.
But there's no need to look out there.
All the ingredients are in place right here.
These three horsemen have countless counsins, and
Each has his own dilemma. But the
Apocalypse is now. And humanity will
fall, not at the hands of Hitler or Stalin,
Satin or Lucifer.
But through the simple actions of
Apathy,
Sloth,
And Hesitancy.