I contravene the Highway Code
and stroll down the middle of a four lane road.
With no other soul nor a car to be seen
it feels like a Hollywood opening scene,
like something momentous has happened today
-an asteroid struck but it seems I’m OK
the scientists said that no man could survive
yet I am uninjured – The Last Man Alive.
Our lonesome dude
must hunt for food,
build a shelter, wield a knife
beware emboldened wildlife,
defend himself, evaluate,
find an Eve - re-populate.
Or maybe it’s more of an end credit scene
and I’m an unstoppable killing machine -
an automated, robot droid
whose laser stare you’d best avoid
sent to vanquish humankind
and this is what I’ve left behind
My mission – Man’s annihilation
….plus all his forms of transportation.
Oh what will threatened humans do?
You’ll have to wait for DeathDroid 2
In truth
there is sun and a temperate breeze
and birds twitter sweetly in whispering trees.
I’m strolling alone on a tranquil street
to the comforting sound of my own two feet
and not entertaining the niggling fear
the world has now ended but I didn’t hear.
My pace has now slowed,
I meander in the road.
Gone are the days
when you’d look both ways.
Now when I do
I see something new -
Neglected old buildings, historical plaques,
obstinate undergrowth struggling through cracks
and up in a tree where a trainer was flung
a couple of blackbirds are feeding their young.
Then, at last
a taxi speeds past
and not so far off
I hear someone cough,
on the building up there
two scaffolders swear.
Life in a lull
is a little bit dull
but I’m not quite alone
in this lock down zone.
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Isolation
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Isolation
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Re: Isolation
Nicely done, Dylan. A great exploration of our times. For a while one might have thought that Mother Nature had won, but we humans are resilient.... I only hope, a faint hope, that maybe we will have learned a bit? Naw - unlikely.
I enjoy your fluid rhyming style.
Aj
I enjoy your fluid rhyming style.
Aj
Re: Isolation
Our lonesome dude
must hunt for food,
build a shelter, wield a knife
beware emboldened wildlife,
defend himself, evaluate,
find an Eve - re-populate.
Love this: funny the stuff that runs through one's head when confronted with possible annihilation . However I suggest we abandon the attempt to repopulate and let the cockroaches have a go at it this time.
must hunt for food,
build a shelter, wield a knife
beware emboldened wildlife,
defend himself, evaluate,
find an Eve - re-populate.
Love this: funny the stuff that runs through one's head when confronted with possible annihilation . However I suggest we abandon the attempt to repopulate and let the cockroaches have a go at it this time.