Hiroshima

Hiroshima 8/6/45
The atomic slaughter 
of war crime committed against civilian population
of entire city –
terrible explosion, fire, harmful radiation,
unleashed annihilation.
Victims’ souls shout at their perpetrators
of this horrible deed.

Our ancestors having learned to harness,
the tremendous power of atom bomb,
used these tools against their own kind.
The history of mankind is filled with wars
for power corrupts men.

May Hiroshima and Nagasaki
be the symbol of brutal atrocities,
shattered truth and time –
man broken inside out.
Perpetrators, obliterators of religion and moral laws
are distorted more than their victims –
of scars unhealed.
Hiroshima – inferno of boiling cloud.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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