Catastrophic Images Of 1945
CATASTROPHIC IMAGES OF 1945
6 And 9 August of 1945
Catastrophic images are still alive
By the sheer drive human could survive
Forget, forgive and strive to thrive
Sporting spirit contrive to revive
Even at a time of turmoil dream hive
Pilot of the US Air Force
Dropped a 16-kiloton
Uranium fission bomb
In a flash of light
All hell broke loose
The eyes of young girls
Watching the parachute melted
And their faces became bloated blisters
Temperatures rose to 4000 degrees
Melting iron and vaporizing human bodies
Three days later
‘Fat Man’ was dropped
One million dead-buried alive
A great moment of history
But not in any way a victory
An irrational act of semen drop
Destroyed there Almighty’s crop
Americans utter in frenzy
Bombing was a necessary in a war
How the mighty and wise were far
From human feeling and guiding star
Historical accounts reveal
And unfold myriad sufferings reel
Even stony heart expresses wail
Where cultured seems utterly fail
The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Do not seem to have taught
The world’s political and military
Elite any lessons
These two days be commemorated
As the days of peace
Let the terror never allow revisit
The images sum up the brutality of man
Who has made the earth of two cities hot pan
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poem by Dr. Shujaat Hussain
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