Disaster

Entropy, the natural opponent of

Forever.  It is silent, inexorable,

inevitable.  Like the spectre of bleak,

black Death, hanging over all, as we

all desperately hang in there.  There

comes a time, as it must, that creeps

upon and astounds us.  Sounds, 

difficult to identify, unfamiliar to

our ears, then suddenly nothing

occurs as it should, the normal become

abnormal.  Disbelieving, we trust this

to be a nasty illusion, soon to pass,

everything returning passively,

placidly, pleasingly, positively as per

expectations to a place we can

recognize and feel comfort within.

But - no, this is it, the real thing,

total collapse.  We sit, stricken and

fearful, transfixed by a dark screen,

that mysterious hard disk that has

encapsulated our world, collapsed.