by Martin Anton Smith martinantonsmith@gmail.com

He Dreamt Of Furure Wars

For A Long Time, Nothing Happened.

But Then After Many Years It Did.

Society Finally Imploded.

The New Operating System,

That The World Had Changed To

In The Early Two-Thousands,

Finally Collapsed.

The Final Five-Decade-Long

Elongated Death Knell,

Suddenly Gave Way,

Under Its Own Weight.

The Operating System Of People

Of Pride, Lies, Corruption, Materialism & Immorality.

The Lies That Were So Big,

That They Were Too Big To Fail,

But They Had To Fail –

As The Operating System,

Was At Core

Sinister.

The Operating System Created Zombies

Of Everyday Men.

But Then A Rupture Came

Called World War Two.

In A Brief Moment Zombification Dissipated

Zombies Were Rare –

For the World Had Been Temporarily Cleansed,

In The Ashes Of War.

But By The Twenty Twenty’s,

Of The 21st Century

It Was Again – Like The Nineteen Twenties – Rare To NOT Be A Zombie.

For The Next War Was A-Knocking.

But As A Man Speaking From The Near Future,

I Can Honestly Say

In Our Times The Fourth World War

Is Now Commonly Referred To As

“It Was The War We Had to Have”.

For Everything On Earth Decays & Corrupts,

In Long Cycles

Just As True As The Sun Rising,

And The Galaxy Turning.

For That That Is Our Struggle Here

Attached To Machines Of Congealed Light

That Require Too Much Maintenance.

I Fought In the War From 2024-35

And Somehow Survived Along With The 2 Billlion Survivors.

I Am Glad To Say We Are Experiencing Another Post War Boom.

We Look After Each Other & Follow The Golden Rule.

But I Know We Are Forever Trapped In A Lull,

A Trough In The Same Cycle,

Created By The Same Operating System.

I Know My Son, Grandson, Or Great Grandson

Will Feel The Pain Of Coming Zombified Decay,

And Will Be Fighting Again In World War Five.

This Is The Curse Of Man On Earth.

Then, Now & In The Future.

It’s The Planet Of The Apes,

Where No One Knows They Are Apes.

And I Ask Of You –

How Dumb Is That?

This Seems To Be Our Forever Nightmare,

Perhaps Only Truely Understandable,

As Punishment For Bad Deeds, In Another Realm.

I Guess We Will Find Out When We Die,

But We Must Forget Again,

After All – We Are All Still Here,

In A Place That Doesn’t Ever Feel Like Home.

If We Are Lucky,

This May Just Be The “Apple Of Knowledge Effect”.

But I highly Doubt That.

I Prefer The Punishment For Bad Deeds Theory,

It Can’t Be A Mistake That Earth Is So Fucked Up.

I Mean – How Can It Be?

And Perhaps the Final Proof Of Our Damnation:

To Go Anywhere In The Universe,

Such As Other Solar Systems & Galaxies,

You Must Travel

Close To The Speed Of Light,

But Conditions Are Such,

That This Is Practically Impossible.

Isn’t That Truth Also Our Prison Walls?

You Couldn’t Design A Better Univeral Prison Than That.

An Intelligent Person Must Respect

Whoever Came Up With That Great Design –

Even If They Are Themselves Captive Prisoners Of His Jail.

But Of Course – We Are Mostly Too Dumb To Realise These Matters,

And So We Repeat The Same Destructive Cycles.

And If You Say These Facts You Are Deemed “Crazy” or “Negative”.

But As I Always Say,

To My Nodding & Mutually Sozzled Fellow World-World-War-Four Vets

“If A Zombie Calls Me Crazy, I Sure Know I’m Not Only Sane – But Entirely Correct”.

Occasionally Someone Disagrees With Us Old Coots,

Even In This Temporary Post War Glow (So the Slide Has Already Begun Again).

But We Take These Omens In Our Stride

Everyone Knows That A Zombie Can Be Neutralised

By Simply Eating His Brain.

So For Now We Can Feast On Zombies Easily,

But We All Know That Soon Again, There Will Be Too Many Zombies,

And Not Enough War Vets.

Ut Semper Brutus, Ut Semper.