ATOMIC  ARMAGEDDON

“A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes…could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere And the survivors–as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.’ For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.”
-President John F. Kennedy, address to the nation on the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 26 July 1963

i.

Atomic Armageddon!

Radiation-muted Baby without arms and legs

In the midnight

Monstrous Superbaby wakes and weeps

O that her mother might recognize her!

Before the catastrophe the spirit of God was here

And it was gold-coloured

Now nuclear sadism dwells here

No trade, art, nor revenues

Only radiation-filled limbs and veins

ii

Pale ghosts rejoice and are there

And where they are humanity is not there

Two World Wars

Are present in radioactive city

What has been

Is always present in future

We imagine the nuclear aftermath

And we fail to find a cure

This is our tragedy

iii.

Where does vice go riding on Devil’s back?

Somewhere in the desert for nuclear test

This is sin. Advertise from house to house

To the very end of Earth.

Break the clutches, the knots

Fix the day

When the nuclear arsenal is destroyed

When diverse views and customs are accommodated

The moment of renascence is consensus-building

Will a Messiah,  bridge-builder between warring nations arrive soon?

All countries-one Destination

Destination of Peace