Tytuł: So said the lighthouse keeper

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   I am the very loneliest
  Of creatures in the universe
  Indeed I am an epitaph to Man
  For having witnessed mass destruction
  Like you've never dreamed and worse
  I fear I shall bear witness once again
  
  So said the lighthouse keeper
  As he struggled up the spiral stairs
  Which led him to the laser flare
  Which scanned the cosmic void
  Where keeping constant vigil
  He'd forewarn, this gallant guard of guards
  Beware all ships the space graveyard
  And its stones of asteroids
  
  For though my race was thought immune
  Themselves they did consume
  So be warned or be mourned tomorrow
  And from your deafess do desist
  And pray take heed of this
  For your present course
  Can only end in sorrow
  
  So said the lighthouse keeper
  As he wiped a teardrop from his nose
  Upon which his spectacles rose
  And gazed out to the stars
  And like a portrait still he stared
  And sighing to himself declared
  I must invent the perfect prayer
  Not yours, not mine, but ours
  
  Which in the name of charity
  Might lead us to Eternal Peace
  The ultimate philosophy
  Some simple, single phrase
  
  The old and much encumbered man
  Then came to rest with head in hand
  He thought
  And thought
  And thought away his last remaining day
  
  (Epilogue:
  When to his end the old man came
  Death told him "You'll not die in vain"
  And on his lips the fatal kiss was placed
  But from within his falling chest
  The old man uttered one last breath
  And had we heard his parting word
  We'd know that he had said....)