Came across a themed haiku contest and though I didn’t enter, the theme stuck with me and played on my mind. So based on the idea of  cities in a dystopian future, here are five interlinked haiku:

A building towers
Nuclear-proof above the dust
Council sits within

A multi-storey
city of lead-lined burrows
Down, down, deeper down

The old opulence
means nothing to those who have
never seen the sun

Two cockroaches fight
to the death there is nothing
above ground to eat

In my day the sky
was blue  Granddad what is sky
some day I’ll tell you.