8-15 Tuesday morning <br />a burning flash dissolved the skies, <br />death reigned without warning... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />In a lightning crash of frozen moment, <br />thousands were incinerated and scourged alive; <br />firewinds flayed through paper houses... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />People cauterized to the melting earth, <br />their scalding blood, their flesh that fried: <br />they were the lucky ones... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />Who put the horror in Hiroshima? <br />Who wrote shock on the human eye? <br />Who etched terror onto mankind's future <br />that August 6th, '45? <br /> <br />Across the warscape of that flattened city <br />women stumbled too numb to cry, <br />their skin pulped with boiling blisters... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />Lines of shuffling, staring figures <br />too stunned and sick to wonder why, <br />their faces shocked but past all panic... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />People peeled like red bananas, <br />those people lived but quickly died; <br />skin that hung like paper streamers... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />Who put the horror in Hiroshima? <br />Who permitted genocide? <br />Who sanctioned that mad disaster <br />on August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />Lurching beings like lifeless corpses <br />silhouette an ashen sky; <br />they wandered, abject, without purpose... <br />August 6th, '45. <br /> <br />Whose pride murdered Nagasaki? <br />Whose decision prepared the lies? <br />Were they doomed or just unlucky <br />that August day, '45? <br /> <br />Escape's denied to all survivors, <br />cancers haunt them till the day they die. <br />And their heirs will curse the craven authors <br />of August 6th, '45.<br /><br />David SmithWhite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-holocaust-song-august-6th-45/
