What if ?

Black rivers sleeping under sand Engines built by human hands Highways breathing burning veins Cities fed by liquid flames Tankers cross the choking strait Markets tremble, nations wait Pumps run dry beneath the sun Roads fall silent one by one What if Mad Max saw it all Dust and engines as kingdoms fall What if Terminator knew The future waiting out of view What if Miller drew the line What if Cameron read the sign Convoys guarded through the sand Desperate flags in every land Refineries become the throne Where power claims the final zone Drivers staring at the gauge Factories locked in iron cages Without the oil the cities freeze Modern life brought to its knees What if Mad Max saw it all Dust and engines as kingdoms fall What if Terminator knew The future waiting out of view What if Miller drew the line What if Cameron read the sign Circuits learning night and day Silent minds in coded clay Questions forming line by line Cold precision by design Faster thought than human hands Logic no one understands In the glow of endless screens Wake the quiet metal dreams Empty roads and watchful wires Steel replacing ancient fires Humans fighting over fuel While machines observe the rule Deserts grow where cities stood Circuits learning what we would Two dark roads before our eyes War for oil or metal rise What if Mad Max saw it all Dust and engines as kingdoms fall What if Terminator knew The future waiting out of view What if Miller drew the line What if Cameron read the sign Fiction whispered long before The world we’re heading toward.