Toxic post-apocalypse wasteland

  Nuclear blessings radiate outwards

Rusted tanks and skeletons littering the bleakness

Chlorine and mustard gas dispersed in the atmosphere

Sand and desert for miles

  Charred and discolored terrain

Gaping wounds in the earth, twenty feet deep

Infertile soil contaminated with acid

                                            from chemical munitions and rain

Smog sky and carbon dioxide

                               blocking the sun’s rays

Parts of destroyed mechs tinted green from centuries of exposure to the environment

Errant robots gliding through the expanse

       Machines without masters, created for a forgotten purpose

         (and wandering without destination)

  just like the world.


3 April 2004
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