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The Tomorrow that Must Not Happen!

I gaze into my crystal ball, discern amidst the haze

A world so far removed from that of now, it would amaze,

Where catapulting incidents collide like billiard *****

And sense defies belief as renaissance makes the calls.

 

Blueprints fresh from Internet supply the suitcase blast

Where the terrorist’s, simultaneously, ignite in cities cast

From Moscow to New York, Beijing to Berlin

Gay Paree to London town then way out east again,

Budapest, Jerusalem Calcutta burning all

And Tokyo is levelled in a ghastly nuclear pall.

 

Kneejerk reaction triggers contrails in the blue

Crisscrossing all the continents obliterating through

An overkill so vicious that in seconds it is past

And the living cling in horror, bearing witness… aghast.

 

Restraints are erased as the opportunists dash

Flotillas from the Spratleys sprint to occupy and cash

In on the minerals, oil and potential food supplies

Of uncontaminated nations found beneath Pacific skies.

Hindi, Jew and Muslim settle scores bereft with years

Of resentment accrued in a flood of blood and tears.

 

A sudden realisation of immensity of loss

Curtails the destruction in retrenchment across

The habitable outposts, the dearth of supply

And the daunting prospects of a nuclear winter sky.

Global collapse of all electronic gear

No power, no phones, and no cars now…for years.

Electromagnetic impulse put paid to all that

And the day is as dark as the cold night is black.

 

 

 

And here all we sit, in the here and the now

On the verge of catastrophes’ teetering tower,

With a fools pudgy finger just inches above

The nuclear button…and all that we love.

……You fear the insanity, sense the insane

Knowing that people like this are holding the reign?

Knowing that volatility strikes

Like the shot of a gun and the ****** of a knife.

 

I don’t have the answers to hand

But someone out there, knows how…and can.

The sands of time are running thin

 

URGENTLY needed a LEADER...to WIN!

 

M.

Planet Earth

6 March 2019

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