Image Credit: Sam Sheppard

Image Description: Cybermen action figures

By William Shaw

A silent gesture

And the Cybermen advance:

The plague ship, calling

A golden prison;

History suspends as we

Shelter underground.

Projectile glitter:

Armageddon Conventions

Melted tin soldiers

Silver yesterdays

Lighted cyber fools the way

To a gold-dust death.

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