They Are Coming

Here is your FWF prompt… Let’s leap into the future with a time & place scenario.  The year: 2063 The place: An underground bunker  What’s going on?

looking up I see the sky across a field of muted blue smoke like gray clouds float by

reaching up to stretch my hands hit the invisible wall

what? slap, slap what is this?

oh my I am enclosed in a clear box buried deep in the ground only light comes in from above

dark earth is on the other three sides air comes in and I can stand and turn

my cell is only a small room what did I do to deserve this?

the authorities have taken over the year is 2063 and the world has changed

I was one of the hunted now captured my sentence for no crime

the loss of all physical touch I will never touch another human

the feel of the grass beneath my feet the cool earth or the hot sidewalk

just this cold smooth glass on all sides

the loneliness sets in with only the piped in sounds as company

the trees limbs above swaying tantalizing just out of reach in the breeze

my heart sinks my faith wanes my mind crawls to a stop as a tear rolls down my cheek

I open my eyes and watch the leaves tossed by the wind

my foot dangles and I feel a slight sensation of coolness and a tickle

my mind is playing tricks on me but my hand feels a softness of fur

looking to my left I see my foot resting in the green cool grass

my left hand resting lightly on my dog’s head sleeping on the ground below

I am laying in the outdoor swing of my own backyard

I realize it was only a dream as the breeze gently caresses my face

but then I realize they are coming and I must run

Mark Schutter ©2013

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