1.

By wells and rills

Under the happy heavens   

In meadows green

For an armor against nuclear bomb

The Poet cries and calls

‘Where have you been all these years, my beloved one?

O Lamb of God!

Come quick

To make Father known,

And purge us of sins:

Come to defeat Satan’s crew

And  regain rose garden

ii.

Now unforgiving  nuclear weapons darken

Innocent earth, unfold vicious design

By radiation leaked or spilled

Legacy of death

Lasts for billions of years

The lily, rose, doves,  sparrow

And none of us will ever be the same

Beware of Nuclear waste tanks.

iii.

Jesus kissed the Poet and spoke thus:

. 

‘Cities evaporate

Global civilization crumble

Hundreds of billions die

In one cataclysmic moment

Mushroom clouds rain

Radioactive fall-out

As the nukes explode

But I shall protect the chosen few

The believer, humble and repentant

I shall protect

For whom Sermon on the Mount is the food they eat

Word is their breath’.

Après la pluie, le beau temps

NOTES

Après la pluie, le beau temps. : After rain comes good weather. Every cloud has a silver lining.