Axis & Allies - damowords

Ave Futura!
What of man’s progress, when the bees die out,
Crude oil dries up, cliffs melt & oceans rise,
When flooded lands are plunged in dark & doubt
& places populous are shrunk in size;
When biofuel
Outranks the belly’s growl
When zeal controls the school & robot policemen prowl.
As copies of silver & gold
Swell coffers with inflation,
Problems presented manifold
To every human nation,
Soon every cent is three times sold
To debt’s dissipation,
Til in a moment of a console’s glow
Each bank account reads zero‐point‐zero.
The sciences are first to fall
With all nuclear things,
As engines stall & homes grow small,
Lacklustre clips Man’s wings,
Swapping his lasar blasters for barb’d arrowheads & slings.
Earth
Fall of Faith
As Man undiscovers technology
All knowledges are given up to faith,
Lost science cover’d by theology
The holograms an angel, ghost or wraith;
Til one strange year
When false prophets arise
Charming & chevalier with calm, prophetic eyes.
Ancyent pagan idolatry,
Barbaric biblioclast,
Serpentine ophiolotry,
Vestal vein & heathen fast,
Have driven Christianity
Into the mountains vast –
Where stood in each scatter’d, rock‐strewn stronghold,
They kindle, still, the rites & runes of old.
This was a nazi‐like zeitgeist,
Confucious set aflame,
The many Christs are sacrificed
& Buddhas slain the same
& even Mohameddians denied their master’s name.
Eurasia