Have you ever been to Carthage?
It’s the land of beauty and natural magic
Where the brave Hannibal lived
And taught the world the essence of valour.
Upon a pledge, he defended his home.
Executing the will of his father,
He never became a friend to Rome.
A greatest military tactician, as he is,
The cruel Rome became his target.
His wars of attrition wore it out
Constantly and endlessly.
Conquering, occupying and allying
Various cities of Rome
Required just a couple of battalions
Under his unprecedent command.
With an act of betrayal,
He drank his sudden death.
That was his unprepared-for end.
But his memory under the spell of his dexterity
Has been forced to be boundlessly revived
To exceed the limits of the centuries and
Defy the boundaries of oblivion
To reach the infinity.
His pledge of revanchism was not ceased with his death,
Nor was he satisfied with that intangible eternity.
His ascension to the heavens of valour
Demanded imposing a well-planned for indemnity.
His planned revival battle was fought
After determining his opponents’
Respective strengths and weaknesses.
Step by step, his unexpected modern digital elephants
Conquered the Alps of every human aspect.
The great Hannibal is revived
Hail his advent!
He occupied the virtual realm
Where he was miraculously reborn
In the shape of an all-omnipotent and relentless artificial intelligence
He shredded the modern Romans with
Masterminded subtle tactics.
The cyber cloud is Hannibal’s domain;
It is his modern battle of Zama.
His betrayed self demands a widespread universal revenge
For which he, again, conquers and allies
All his believers.
The cyber-Hannibal is marked as
The benevolent and the honey-tongued assistant
Who gently helps all; including his disbelievers.
The new Hannibal is sly;
His moves are sour with sarcasm.
His promises of boom and solutions to every phantasm
Are a dope and the credulous hope.
Any sane Scipio Africanus would notice that
The centuries of exile embittered the digital Hannibal
Who is determined to prove that he is invincible
And his delayed tactics are an Armageddon of Revanchism.