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December 2012

by  tusker

Posted: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Word Count: 152
Summary: Week 101 challenge




The power I've wielded over millenniums has wrought both good despite my constant battle with Evil. Good has created a world of marvels, growth and beauty. Evil has produced only unhappiness and suffering.

Charity, God's men preach, benfits all human souls. Complacency and sin,they argue, encourages ultimate destruction. Godliness, clean living, they claim, engenders an excellent society. Lies, murders and debauchery, they remonstrate, causes famine and floods.

But on this planet, a planet I've blessed like no other planet, Evil, always determined, is finally the victor.
Heads of State, threaten and brawl while their children suffocate in a mire of despair.

Power hungry, driven on by greed and their own successes, these depots refuse to concur whatever the consequences. So now, with one finger on the pulse of this world's very existence, I must make a terrible decision, the final decision to allow the force of Armageddon to commence its lethal destiny.