Sign of the Times

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková is named after the astronomers who discovered it in 1948 - Minoru Honda, Antonín Mrkos, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková. The comet will be visible to the naked eye as it makes its closest approach to Earth on February 11.

Comets are traditionally seen as signs of ill omen, hence the poem this Saturday

Sign of the Times

The comet, shining in dawn sky

Prophet crying fly, fools, fly

The baleful light, the evil sign

The forebear of a dark design

Signs in the heavens now foretell

That man will bring on earth a hell

To neighbours living side by side

Where there is hatred, none can hide

The comet, shining in dawn sky

As people believe the largest lie

Sucked into time of fear and hate

And now the hour is ever so late

Power is mine, the cruel tyrant said

You poor fools, you made your bed

For you listened to the voice of fear

And now your doom is coming near

The comet, shining in dawn sky

And across the land, weep and cry

A storm comes, the earth laid waste

And time is ticking with such haste

Five minutes short of midnight hour

The card turned over, falling tower

A dark charisma ruling the land

Far outstretched, a tyrant’s hand

The comet, shining in dawn sky

And this will be our funeral pyre

The world will burn, fire and flame

And all our fault, we are to blame

The wind is rising, the storm is here

Weep for lost hope, a final prayer

The world turns cold, catches death

And mankind breaths a final breath