Zombie Poetry

The darkness rushed at humanity headlong

None so fortunate to be ignored

It came to the folks whose hearts were strong

And at those whose hearts had failed

We heard that the dead were now walking about

Or so the word spread from the east

And it came just as quick to the believing

As to those who'd believed it the least

When they came we were caught in inaction

As if lost in a nightmarish dream

We would swear even then it's a fiction

But for all the ungodly screams

Some ran where they could and found shelter

In basement and strip mall and home

They prayed that their doors wouldn't falter

They prayed it would not be their tomb

But we failed alone and in bunches too

Most were not cut out for this fight

And barracades failed as barracades do

And all our days fell into night

For light doesn't shine in the rooms they can't breach

Under mountain and blast door and sentry

We live in caves while they roam out of reach

We now pray that they won't find an entry

But now we hear of an illness that's spreading

A virus that will kill us all

For now the dead here will likely start walking

Our great fortress is likely to fall.

In the end we had no cause for hoping

Regardless of the castle annexed

For the door that will always be opened

Is the door between this life and next