Water in crystal goblets form <br />Fall into a silky sea <br />Effervescent rays spread out <br />Atoms pulse through me <br /> <br />Autumnal sky and big red moon <br />Harbingers of portent <br />Wings of Heaven darkly fall <br />The Sun’s last rays augment. <br /> <br />Brightly burning is the light <br />Flashes from pole to pole <br />Shadows scorch upon the earth <br />Long the Darks Days roll. <br /> <br />Nuclear Winter breezes blow <br />Dreams, ambition’s dead: <br />Hell beyond redemption comes <br />Destruction’s Hydra head. <br /> <br />No heart to hope or weep again <br />No joys untold or fame; <br />The last breath extinguished <br />No one left to blame. <br /> <br />The sweeter kiss of Peace’s brow <br />Holds only dust and sand <br />Citadels of greed crash down <br />Across a weeping land. <br /> <br />Microbes deep within the sea <br />Hold life’s bold cradle now <br />Vaporised is all of Heaven’s blue <br />We made our perfect bow.<br /><br />Patrick Scott Hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/extinction-of-man-nuclear-winter-2/
