Day 30 Prompt: Memory

Title: Thirty-Thirty

The armies of the dead must fight the ice and snow to find their ancestral

Homes deep in lightless caves, and rocky crevasses, where

In the dark, they are no more than lost children

Roaming like mindless zombies, with no memory of Earth's history

They are ravaged and torn, by the errors of our ways and what remains of

Your hapless ancestors have been left to start over again.

This story could in reality go either way, but

Hell-bent on making a point, I chose the apocalyptic version, feel free to refer to me as woke

Inviting you to understand the seriousness of the environmental crisis by embedding it in your memory, for the

Relentless speed of its approach is understated, and you should all be aware that

Time is running out, and we'll soon be caught in an irreversible landslide, but

Yet with apathy, the unenlightened still bury their heads in the sand, preferring to read fantasies and love stories than face the truth