Poems for Weekly Challenge

Invasion of the Pod People

Invasion of the Pod People

No one saw it coming
No one anticipated it
No one was ready

It was not according
To revelations

One day the pods
appeared everywhere
Landing and popping open

Spreading deadly pollen
That infected people
Turning them into part
Of the hive mind

Within days
The infected became
The majority of human beings

Hunting down the
few remaining feral humans

the infected lived together
in a group hive mind
each individual part
of the collective whole

yet retained some memories
of their prior life
war, poverty, injustice ended
as did freedom of thought
freedom of religion

to the hive mind
there was no God
no devil either

No heaven or hell
No religious dogma
Soon few remembered
The old days

History was not taught
The Hive mind

Just was
The end of time

re-telling of the classic Scf-Fi books and movies, "the Invasion of the Body Snatchers"