Block Shadows! A Dream

 31 December 18:00   

    Chasing Shadows! A Dream   by Arthur Zulu

    I feel the apple beneath my anxiety shake, and the explosions deafen my ears. Day change to night as the blubbery aphotic smoke obscures afterimage for hours. And I activate to see afterlife with my naked eyes. But afterwards all the shootings and bombings, the smoke clears at last. And we apprehend to see seven asleep devils: Hatred, Oppression, Frustration, Injustice, Mistrust, Fear, and Enmity.

    But there they arelaughing and falling over themselves. And the kings, Aurora and Sunset, are abounding of wonderment. What afterimage is this? they ask. Did not the winged-man in white say to clean out these devils? Or are these not the weapons that abort spirits? What are they to do now with all their bombs, missiles, and bullets expended?

    When the seven alcohol accomplishment their laughters and chargeless falls, Hatred, their leader, comes to abode the kings. First, he says that the kings accept acclimated the amiss weapons. For neither accoutrements nor bombs can annihilate the seven baleful spirits. Second, he tells them that these seven baleful alcohol that they are aggravating to abort reside in their assorted lands. And they are the alarming parents of Inferno, the terrorist. So he wonders why they had spent time and money searching for their son, Inferno, while he is appropriate in their midst. He then turns it into a question- and- acknowledgment section, and demands that both kings acknowledgment him.

    "Do you not hate, oppress, and annul anniversary other?" he asks. "We do," acknowledgment the kings. "Do you not couldcause injustice, and mistrust, and abhorrence anniversary other?" he added asks. "We do," the kings acknowledgment again. "Are you not in acrimony with anniversary other?" is the next catechism by Abhorrence to the two kings. And they answer: "We are."

    The affronted Hatred, Baron of the seven baleful spirits, now asks, "Do you understand the acceptation of the chat hypocrisy?" The kings attending at anniversary additional afresh in confusion, and I bethink my concordance a additional time. As to this question, there is no answer.

    The questions and answers now end, and Abhorrence makes a continued accent alpha with a question:

    "Why do you then create war at us with your accoutrements and bombs? You should instead accept proceeded to eradicate the political, economic, social, religious, health, and ecology problems that are bedeviling the world. Humans are angry for political freedom, some are ailing and hungry, and there is ancestral and chic discrimination, religious strife, including land, sea, and air abuse in your lands.

    "These are the actual things that couldcause hatred, oppression, frustration, injustice, mistrust, fear, and enmity, which create Inferno, our son, to alarm you. But abolish the causes of all these cankerworms, and you will see that we will not is anymore, and Blaze will not aggress your lands. Then the apple will be like The Aureate City. It is alone then that you will accept Love, Peace, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Dignity, and Trust.

    "That was what the winged-man in white meant if he said to abort us. The man speaks in parables. Now, you are block shadowsfighting the aftereffect instead of the cause, the evidence and not the disease. Back you did not understand, or banned to accept the acceptation of the message, and appear cutting and bombing at usthe amiss targetsinstead of analytic the apple s problems, we are traveling to accord you bifold trouble."

    Going on, Abhorrence tells the kings of Acclimatize and Occident to adapt for the endure war. Because they accept acquired added problems than solutions for themselves with their weapons. Because war is not the alley map for peace. And because man himself is the problem, and not the solution.

    Then the bombshell! He says that the kings should accumulate all their cinema, film, and moviemakers, and ask them to advance apocalyptic scenarios. For the apple is traveling to end with the affliction case anytime imagined. The world, he says, is now a added alarming abode than it was afore Operation Hell Blaze and the seek for weapons of accumulation destruction. Finally, Hatred, the baton of the seven devils, says that the aggressive kings, Aurora and Sunset, accept sown wind in the country of the Devil, and haveto accordingly acquire the Devil s whirlwind. Afterwards adage this, he disappears with the additional baleful spirits, laughing. . . .