So Said The Lighthouse Keeper

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.