Would you join this Prepper Fraternity in 2023?

 Press play and let the music wash over you as read.

 

The group stayed safe in its small enclave

Hidden away from the watching world

 

Fighting progress

With their burning fires whilst watching the grey smoke

Of old computers

 

Rise like a signal to travelling pilgrims

 

To show them the way

In the bluest of skies 

With a welcoming wave 

 

From daylight to midnight

They ate together

Drank 

Slept played and sang music

 

Consumed old

Manuscripts and tattered old books

 

In wild conversations

Stories and poetry of the soul

In huge reading circles

As they embraced the cold wind

 

And fresh air

With blessings

 

 As they chanted thoughts of gratitude in unison

Without the need for more rehearsals

 

Such was this life-changing funfair

 

 

The smells of antiquity

Incense and scented vanilla candles

Filled the firefly-lit air

 

Their eyes glistened with abhorrence

As they looked out to all the new cities

Which rose so high up

Upon all the horizons

 

Like so many new Sodom and Gomorrah's

Palaces of old depravities

A cruel world beckoning 

In the Age of the New Babylonian 

Where technocrats now abide

And hell on earth rises

With the chants for

New vaccines

 

Tales of bio-engineered viruses and

Ungodly indulgence's

 

       Symbols and symptoms 

        Of humanities greed

      Which would attract the dark forces 

      Of Divine Reckoning 

 

Above each caravan

Hung golden exquisite plaques

Firmly fixed with their sacred motto

To be absorbed by many

Visiting wide eyes

We are the new Luddites

Of the Written Word

The last of the few

Reading real books

Creating evocative poetry

Learning new things

And bound to no king or country

Living a true life

Together as friends

Sharing thoughts as a community

Come join us

 

Be a member of one of life's

Sincere 21st century

Fraternities

Don't be lost alone

Wandering throughout life

Filled with so many uncertainties

But be one of us

And try to find a means

To wash away all your impurities

To be a real human

 

Not their version of their new transhumanist man 

Copyright John Duffy