Alea Iacta Est - I Declare War

The planet Mars is decaying to a frozen ball of waste

Inhabitants of Mars must flee their homes

The popular astronomer, Ogilvy, sees a flame explode from the surface of Mars

Ogilvy then invited me to his observatory

There I observed at midnight for ten consecutive nights

The same explosion from the planet’s surface

Days later, what appeared to be

A meteor, landed on Horsell Common

Ogilvy and I were the first to see

That the meteor was actually

A cylinder containing life forms

Bulky creatures with tentacles

Came out and began to build alien machines

The machines stood on three legs and were armed with heat rays

I had to take my wife to safety in Leatherhead

My one love has been separated from me

Because of these terrorizing machines

I parted ways with my family

In order to stop these alien machines

While traveling, I found a curate from Weybridge

He followed me into an abandoned house

That was almost crushed by a falling cylinder

The curate went insane and caused the Martians to find him

Taking his body, they drained his blood for energy

Escaping from the house, I saw that all the land was black and destroyed

But the aliens had died due to an Earthly bacteria

There is now hope for humanity