Doom- day-dream

I closed my eyes and my head lulled
I thought of red brick, green grass and charcoal skies
Then I slept

I dreamt of riots and crowds who crawled with me
And over me
Through forced passages and along corridors with blacked out windows
Hearts filled with panic missed their beat
In the maze of a great dark house
Most were dragged outside on to a flat white rooftop
Where childhood friends
And first kisses

Lined them up and hushed the hysteria with a bullet

Those still inside cared not how they met their death
For they now realised it was truly the end of the world
When a sweetheart returned for unbloodied targets
The open doorways would blaze with sunlight
And all in its path wept as they burned to nothing
And became the floor beneath our clawing hands

The provider of life shone on its saplings
And by summer
Blew them to smithereens