Sophie Boswell Poet Prose Poetry

Will Cherry Blossoms Bloom Again

Will Cherry Blossoms Bloom Again?

The wrath of nature shows it face, in cherry-blossom land
Where the Tsunami spewed salt water, and churned up piles of sand
As it wiped out people, like a scathe cutting grass
But this time, sadly, its memory will not pass
When a wall of waves rose forty feet high
Then, momentarily, they obliterated the sky
As terrified people scrambled for their lives
Little children, grandmothers, husbands and wives

Two years later, this monument of horror remains
As an untouchable shroud, that imprisons people's pains
The black and burned reactors, now twisted and torn
Are reminders, like hideous visions, there to warn
The human inhabitants, of this planet Earth
That the time has now come, to consider the dearth
Fukushima portrays, from an unrelenting source
Of our planet's anger, with unprecedented force

These oceans could surge forth, time and time again
Leaving behind gray pictures of misery and pain
Like those now framing Fukushima's gruesome ground
Where not a trace of healthy life, can be found
Or the vision of a mother letting go her baby's hand
As the dead child slips away, in water mixed with sand
To me, the sun's our answer, to set us all free
To see cherry blossoms bloom again, for eternity.
                           oOo
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