To Be Immune

Something I wrote based on the game Left 4 Dead.

A terryfing screech penetrates

The musty air of the subway

Guttural grunts grow in intensity

The four survivors grip their guns tightly

 

With a blast of an orange and yellow muzzle flash

Decaying corpses pour into the crashed subway cars

An older man holds up his SMG and squeezes the trigger

The charging zombies fall backward hollering insanely

 

A young woman raises a scarred Ruger Mini-14

Sends a bullet from the barrel into a screaming zombie

It drops to the ground finally permanently dead

The four immune travellers continue to trek onward

 

A molotov constructed from an old bottle of vodka

Is hurled through a doorway into a room full of boxes

It sets everything ablaze sending the Infected running

A middle-aged black man in slacks and a tie starts firing

 

The bodies drop and everything is quiet

A disgruntled biker signals to move forward

The four survivors walk into a red-tinted room

The only way out is to drop into the sewers

 

The four survivors splash through the foul sewage

The biker throws a pipe bomb distracting the zombies

As all four run toward a ladder leading to Mercy

They climb to the surface and head toward the hospital doors

 

The doors hang open

Inviting all to enter

Human, Infected, it doens't matter

 

All four patch themselves up

They make their way toward the staircase

Running as fast as they possibly can

Trying to get to the top where the helicopter is

 

They reach the roof of the hospital

But in their way to the helipad sits

A bony gray zombie crying angrily

 

They try to make their way around her quietly

But the Junior Systems Analyst trips and falls noisily

The zombie jumps to her feet and screeches wildly

She grabs the young man's arms and pulls them fiercely

 

The black man screams for just a bit of mercy

The biker steps forward and raises his Benelli

M4 Super 90 and shatters the skull of the zombie

The Vietnam Green Beret veteran helps up the man

 

All four limp slowly toward the rescue helicopter

Which is soon to land to pick up more survivors

Only to be run over by hordes of zombies

And the entire process stars all over

Author's Note

Yeah, it's kind of long. If I wrote about the entire level this poem is based on it'd be wayyyy longer :P

Reviews

[*Evelen*]

Well done. Very descriptive, and unique. It's different I like it. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks for the review.

[Sagemind]

Nice! Left 4 Dead!

[Victoria Harlequin]

Well this was interesting.
I've never read anything like it, very unique. I could see all of it happening in my head.
Good job!

[Robert Francis Callaci]

A fun read-I felt I was watching a zombie flick -I'm an old fart don't play video games:)

my warmest
bob