How Hot Was It
How hot was it! We’ll not forget that day,
when high in the clouds, flew the plane
“Enola Gay”
Children made to shadows, melted into brick,
and now in urban cities, still they turn up sick
How hot you are my mother! Your skin so
brittle-black, your caring hand now carbon,
they put you in a sack
Where are you darling children, my wife of
jet black hair?
Vapourized one morning in Nagasaki’s air
And when I hear the drone, of a motor overhead,
I think a million suns, of atomic awesome dread
How hot was it that day!
Written for contest 25/7/15
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