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Hiroshima
I’ve got the perfect excuse:
I wasn’t there, I am too young,
I don’t speak the language,
And would have been too far away.
Perfect, but nothing like good enough.
In life’s harsh light, we were all there;
Young, old, dead, alive or unborn:
We all know what happened.
Condemned to be cogs in the machine,
Nobody can do the dodge now;
No one can hide and say
‘It’s nothi...
Tuesday 6th August 2024 6:41 am
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
"We can't risk losing people,
Killed in action, far away.
What'll happen to their wives,
Their children, the next of kin?
We have to end the war,
But, none the less, we are
Too proud, too good, too vigorous,
To just give up, to just retreat.
Let's see what happens," did they say,
And to end a war, to save their lives,
They killed two hundred thousand people,
And didn't stop at all.
Sunday 26th July 2015 1:42 pm
LOST SOULS
The crime is with the leaders, you caused the death of thousands,
destroyed two cities. Cursed your generation so it became the guinea pig,
the atomic generation. You all glow in the dark, legacy lasting to my life.
Now more have the bomb, ten thousand times bigger than the Hiroshima firecracker,
that destroyed your city. Old people walk happily down the str...
Monday 10th June 2013 12:54 am
LOST SOULS
LOST SOULS
The crime is with the leaders, you caused the death of thousands,
destroyed two cities. Cursed your generation so it became the guinea pig,
the atomic generation. You all glow in the dark, legacy lasting to my life.
Now more have the bomb, ten thousand times bigger than the Hiroshima firecracker,
that destroyed your city. Old people walk happily down t...
Monday 20th February 2012 4:02 pm
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