Watchmaker
By Christopher FergusonPhysics
Calculus
Uranium
And PlutoniumEvery resource we can find
To make a better tomorrowFrom passenger planes to fighter jets
Nuclear power to atomic bombs
From standard jeeps to giant tanks
To North Korea and VietnamFrom music players to sonic booms
Electricity to radiation
From medicines to poisons
To the opposite of creationInventions that cross between
Commodity and sheer destructionForest fires, napalm gas, and inhuman chemistry
Our arsenal of megadeath unleashed above the skies
Sacrifice of conscience to obtain more weaponry
Caught between the vultures of politics and liesThe space race
The arms race
The race to end mankindIf only I had known
I would become a watchmaker.