...and people just dreamt

Theologists say

‘there were signs’, ‘we were warned’,

however a whole nation slept

as a prophecy dawned.

It sept up through the depths,

Like the weightlessness of space

and people just dreamt

As it… well, smothered the place.

Bubbled forth from the vents,

the cracks and the pipes.

No resistance to meet it.

No grivels, no gripes.

Television was bad,

It spread it in loads.

Brain-washing their minds

with subliminal codes.

Drawn in by the language.

The real meaning ‘OBEY’

Eagerly soaked up the input,

no question or delay.

Radio, media,

the advertising campaign.

Good old moral values,

now become inane.

There was such a time,

you could laugh without wealth.

Mans visions were clear

and his spirit had health.

Then it rose up.

The first signs of it shown.

Causing problems so vast,

but the cause never known.

Causing all that was causable,

The battles, the sorrow.

The millions in debt.

The billions were borrowed.

Men’s minds now grew dark,

their dreams draped with gloom.

The fabric of life,

now exceeding the loom.

But the structure had flaws,

never talked of before

and as the structure came down

so did the burden it bore.

It didn’t take long.

Half a decade no more.

Abolished was politics,

all money and law.

Out went religion.

Technology, all mandates

Now life has no stress

by our primitive standards.

The world they had known,

now out of control

The last mandate brought in,

was the one of the HOLE!

A universal decision.

An agreed equilibrium.

Push everything in the holes

and simply just bury them.

And so it was done.

All that was man made.

Planted back to the earth,

down to shovel and spade.

The memories of ‘progress’

now long since decayed.

I shall pass on this story…

… as I sit in my cave.