the incident

tomorrow
all the hackers fed up with the way that
the empire has been dealing with the people on this planet
combine their skills
in order to break into the most secret of databases,
that which controls the release of our nuclear onslaught,
meant for whatever nation or people
ends up picking the shortest straw or making the
biggest mistake in our eyes,
as we still control the world with
nothing more than might.

those taking control of the nukes
do not work for any government or agency or
terrorist group,
instead, they act on their own &
they act out of desperation,
feeling that this empire’s ability to command all others on the planet
to do its bidding
will inevitably lead to the end of all life on the
planet,
as a result of a domino effect of nuclear attacks
from country to country
wherein all those that have them
will release them on someone else &
we will all be incinerated in moments.

when the nukes of the empire are maneuvered so that
they are now aimed at the sites where other nukes are hidden
all across the empire,
a button is pushed
without the knowledge of those who thought that they had control
of all the knowledge &
suddenly the baton of the big bad bully
is knocked from its hands.

this incident could have been prevented
if the people of the empire stopped listening to those that run it &
instead, began to listen to those who are been suffocated, oppressed &
strangled for it.

empires have come & empires have gone,
one way or another---
will we learn from the mistakes of the past or will we
repeat it with incomparable destruction?

the storm is coming.