people discussed back in the day
wouldn’t it be great in a way
to have a doomsday clock
after that shock
of world war two?

so people thought about criteria
how to messure the time till siberia
falls upon our Earth —

it was nineteen fourty-seven
two years after everything almost came to an end
that people found
with the ticking sound
of the nuclear arms race
it’s simply brace, brace, brace
for impact
it’s just seven minutes till midnight
one minute less than sunlight reaches Earth
and midnight was equal to doomsday
our fate —

two years later in nineteen fourty-nine
one year after George Orwell had written his nineteen eighty-four
there were just three minutes left
on the doomsday clock
what kills us first
was the question of the time
and doomsday was just a button press away
with the atomic bomb ready to fly
on both sides of the atlantic —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand seven
and the biggest threat to humans is
the climate change —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand twelve
and the biggest threat to humans are
biological weapons —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand fifteen
and the biggest threat to humans is
the cyber war —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand twenty
and the biggest threat to humans is
social media
with its war of information
with its half truth
and the fake news —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand twenty-three
and the biggest threat to humans are
AI and its algorithms —

brace, brace, brace
for the doomsday race
it’s two-thousand twenty-five
and the biggest threat to humans are
we — humans themselves
with just eighty-nine seconds left
till midnight
on our doomsday clock —

progress always moves forward
never stops to look back
what have we done
should be stop?
should we take another road?
it’s progress without reflection
day after day
it’s freedom without protection
year after year
that we simply cannot see that tear
of the child anymore
that we tore
the wall down
but lost humanity from there on —

apparently
we’ve got eighty-nine seconds left
on the doomsday clock
but
nuclear weapons are able to destroy Earth
within thirty seconds.

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        © Dominik Alexander / 2025